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• ‟ I have a helicopter that I use for U.K. business trips, and I fly myself. I have a yacht in Antibes in the south of France, which is a sort of indulgence, as we only use it for about four weeks a year. The rest of the time, it is chartered out to people as a business.

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• ‟ Business gives you a massive high. Doing a great deal, coming up with an inspirational solution... It's very addictive. But it doesn't last long. In isolation, it's a bit sterile. It doesn't reward the soul.

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• ‟ Really good customer service will deliver sales. You are training salesmen to give the best possible advice and then to achieve the sale. People actually like you to ask for a sale because it shows you value their business.

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• ‟ My second business would have succeeded but for competitors' jealousy. I was selling motorbike gear cheap, but the people I was undercutting complained to the manufacturer and cut off my supply. It showed me how corrupt business can be. When I sold phones, the same thing happened, but this time I was ready.

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• ‟ In any business opportunity, you'd be looking, probably, primarily at the risk and return. Some business can be very risky with a low return; what you want is the lowest risk with the biggest return.

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• ‟ I was bullied at school for my red hair; today I still come out fighting hard. I give as good as I get. In business, it's about finding solutions, not being rolled over.

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• ‟ If I died tomorrow, I would regret growing so wealthy and still running the business when there are so many more people I could have helped.

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• ‟ As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort.

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• ‟ I always switch off from the business when I go across the threshold. Home is home, and I try to keep it that way.

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• ‟ When I came into the mobile phone business, I was really the upstart who pretty much took the business, not quite by storm, but really made an impact on it quite early on. But it was from a position, really, of feeling that I was a last mover.

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• ‟ I suppose I have very undesirable traits. I am very critical, which is very undesirable. But it is good from a business point of view.

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• ‟ E-mails are the cancer of modern business.

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