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" Young people are the entrepreneurs of the future, and we should be looking to them as one of our sources of innovation for the high streets of tomorrow. "

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" There are huge misconceptions about people on benefits. They are labelled scroungers or cheats. The reality is that many who need that level of support are working, but their income is not enough to get out of debt or pay for basics like food and household bills. It's so close to the way I grew up. "

" I didn't have a great childhood, and neither did Debbie, my wife, so we both try to give the kids not only the material things we never had but also the hugs and the love. "

" Stack the cards in your favour, and in a casino, you'll get arrested and put in prison, but in business and in life, it's the right thing to do. "

" I don't really sleep until gone midnight anyway. It takes me a while to calm down before my mind allows me to switch off. "

" The government must recognise that taxing retailers differently is reckless. "

" I cringe when I watch myself on camera. I'm not articulate, and I'm dyslexic, but somehow it works. "

" I'm not into cats; they aren't my bag. "

" My parents divorced, my brothers and I ended up living with my mother, and we were living with the choice of heating or eating. My mum was working, but she needed financial support to make ends meet. I had to have free school dinners and free school uniforms. "

" I started work at 13, had three or four part-time jobs, and learnt very quickly the values of work. "

" I was born in Cyprus, but my family moved to England when I was about six. "

" Businesses might have been helped by the ability to promote themselves on the Internet, but they have also been hit by the web's encouragement of time-wasting by their staff. "

" I hate mornings. "

" The statistics for investing in small businesses are such that the vast majority fail. "

" I'm a shopaholic. I really am. I can't help myself. I do go into, browse, and purchase from my own shops, too, although the CEOs who run my businesses wish I didn't. "

" I'm not a risktaker. I'm the total opposite. "

" I was lucky enough to find my passion early - in retail - and I have done well but, most importantly, loved doing it. "

" Politicians are elected to do what is right, but too many are just doing what is right for the party. "

" I'd rather be rich and miserable than poor and miserable. "

" It's called common sense, but it's not common. Most people don't have it. "

" We survived for hundreds of years under the old banking structure. You'd have clearing banks, then merchant banks doing the racy stuff, and then building societies where you'd join a waiting list for a mortgage. But then banks started buying stockbrokers, doing mortgages, and you ended up with these big banking groups doing everything. "

" I admire people who have passion and energy. "

" Making the first million is hard; making the next 100 million is easy. "

" What makes business exciting is that you don't need a fancy degree, and anyone can do it. "

" If you look at all the investments made during 'Dragons' Den,' the ratio of those that make it to those that don't is actually extremely high. "

" What the entrepreneur gets on 'Dragons' Den' is direct access to people with masses of experience who can actually make quick decisions. "

" On Saturday, I don't want to be woken up until at least nine: I like a bit of a lie-in, a cup of tea, toast and marmalade, and the newspaper. "

" Small does not mean insignificant. "

" In the 1960s, my first-generation immigrant parents were gifted the olive branch of a blue British passport when working for the British Army in Cyprus. It completely transformed the Paphitis story. "

" The great virtue of the web, its ease of communication, has also become its Achilles' heel in that it has polluted the air with meaningless babble and egomaniacal drivel. "