Theo Paphitis Quotes

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Theo Paphitis

Profession : Businessman

Birth : September 24, 1959

Ultimately, if you don't have an interest in what you do, it will be so much harder to make money from it.

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If the cash runs out, it's like a heart attack for you and your business. Keep that front and centre of your mind, and you will have financial security and not be struggling to pay the bills.

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If you cannot bore your friends to death about your own small business, then something is seriously wrong.

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I admire people who have passion and energy.

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I know I have been lucky in business, and I am keen now to spread goodwill to others, of course not forgetting that very often, you make your own luck by making use of every opportunity.

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My vision is that everyone who has ever won an #SBS retweet from me becomes part of a friendly club. Like-minded individuals can share successes and learn.

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I was absolutely astonished and could not believe my eyes at the outrageous interest rates that people in need have to pay to get loans.

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I am for a transactional tax at the point of purchase for both online and physical retail.

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The government must recognise that taxing retailers differently is reckless.

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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.

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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.

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Without hope, the very fabric of our society will fall apart.

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My family's challenges meant we lived hand to mouth. There were weeks when we had neither electricity nor heating.

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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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Becoming a campaign representative for the somewhereto_ re:store campaign was a simple choice.

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A lot of multinationals have long, drawn-out processes and are pretty useless at putting products on the shelves quickly.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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