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John Caudwell
English
Businessman
Born:
Oct 7
,
1952
Business
Me
Money
People
Time
You
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It's important to show children love, affection and balance and invest time in their moral upbringing.
John Caudwell
Love
Time
Balance
Important
Affection
Moral
Invest
Upbringing
Children
Show
I make no apology for wanting to make a profit - the more I make, the bigger percentage will go to charity. So most of the work I do now is motivated by that.
John Caudwell
Work
Charity
Will
Profit
Percentage
More
Most
Make
Motivated
Go
Wanting
Bigger
Apology
Now
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.
John Caudwell
Today
Good
Business
School
Hair
Red Hair
Fighting
Out
Solutions
Finding
About
Give
Red
Over
Come
Still
Bullied
Get
Being
Hard
Sometimes your worst competitors are the ones which are dying because they do stupid things.
John Caudwell
Sometimes
Stupid
Worst
Because
Dying
Which
Your
Things
Competitors
I do want to keep the Wedgewood Collection in place, intact, and open to the public. Selling it off would be a real tragedy.
John Caudwell
Collection
Would
Would-Be
Open
Real
Intact
Off
Tragedy
Selling
Want
Place
Public
Keep
Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that after I left school.
John Caudwell
Time
School
Job
Say
Pottery
Part
Part-Time
Journalists
Like
Doing
Off
Left
Just
After
Short-Lived
Sweeping
Floors
Started
I might have made more money if I had outsourced to India, and I knew I'd find it easier to hire senior managers in London. But I wanted to be in Stoke. What could be more satisfying than creating work for 3,000 people in my home town?
John Caudwell
Work
Home
People
Money
Made
Easier
India
Find
London
More
Could
Had
Knew
Town
Hire
Than
Stoke
Managers
Senior
Wanted
Might
Creating
Home Town
Satisfying
I didn't want my epitaph to read 'Here lies John Caudwell, billionaire.' I knew that wasn't enough. I've had a charitable instinct all my life, but working gave me no time for it.
John Caudwell
Life
Time
Me
My Life
Enough
Gave
All My Life
Charitable
Lies
John
No Time
Had
Knew
Instinct
Read
Want
Working
Epitaph
Billionaire
Here
Knowing that my ancestry had all been quite wealthy and owned their own businesses probably left me with the ambition to replicate what they'd done.
John Caudwell
Me
Ambition
Own
Ancestry
Wealthy
Had
Knowing
Been
Left
Replicate
Owned
Done
Quite
Businesses
I'm in the lucky position that I can help a huge amount of people. It's a great privilege and freedom to have.
John Caudwell
Great
Freedom
People
Huge
Huge Amount
Privilege
Help
Lucky
Amount
Position
I'm a wealth creator. I'm not interested in saving in the least. While I do spend a lot, I don't spend money like other billionaires. I'm probably quite unusual, albeit I do have some of the significant trappings. But I always try to make my assets work for a living.
John Caudwell
Work
Money
Wealth
Try
Living
Other
Saving
Spend
Significant
Some
Like
Make
Unusual
Always
Least
Lot
Quite
Not Interested
While
Interested
Billionaires
Trappings
Creator
Assets
Albeit
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.
John Caudwell
Business
Old
Nine
Some
Obvious
Sort
Became
Passed
Years
Up
Going
Start
Start-Up
I just wasn't academic. I wanted to be in the real world.
John Caudwell
World
Academic
Real
Just
Wanted
The Real World
Real World
When my back's to the wall, I want to fight.
John Caudwell
Fight
Back
Wall
Want
I believe in workers' rights when people are doing a good job.
John Caudwell
Good
Rights
People
Good Job
Job
Believe
Doing
Workers
My philosophy is very much to encourage my children to forge their own success and happiness, even though that will undoubtedly involve much more modest levels of wealth creation.
John Caudwell
Happiness
Success
Wealth
Will
Own
Creation
Philosophy
Though
More
Involve
Encourage
Undoubtedly
Very
Forge
Children
Modest
Much
Even
Levels
I don't like paying too much for anything or wasting it. I think that I'm more of a balanced individual rather than a dichotomy.
John Caudwell
Too Much
Think
Too
Rather
More
Individual
Like
Balanced
Dichotomy
Than
Anything
Much
Paying
Wasting
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.
John Caudwell
You
Business
Opportunity
Looking
Some
Risk
Risky
Primarily
Return
Very
Any
Want
Biggest
Low
Lowest
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.
John Caudwell
Business
Phone
Made
Feeling
Took
Impact
Pretty
Came
Mobile
Quite
Storm
Much
Really
Who
Early
Last
Position
The power of fear of failure, with will to win, is an incredible force. I don't think we should be worried about having a fear of failure; I think it's quite natural. If you surveyed any top businessman or any top athlete, I bet if they were truthful, they would all say they've got a fear of losing and a fear of failure.
John Caudwell
Failure
You
Natural
Win
Fear
Losing
Will
Power
Think
Incredible
Worried
Top
Say
Would
Athlete
Bet
About
Having
Force
Got
Were
Truthful
Any
Quite
Should
Businessman
I do like a healthy dose of adrenalin, but my character is more rounded. I am not timid; I like excitement.
John Caudwell
Character
Healthy
More
Adrenalin
Excitement
Like
Am
Timid
Dose
Rounded
I do not put my tastes as incredibly expensive, but they are incredibly expensive for an average man.
John Caudwell
Man
Incredibly
Put
Tastes
Expensive
Average
Average Man
I decided to leave most of my wealth to my charitable foundation, which is not to be confused with my charity. My charity helps children directly. The charitable foundation will receive most of my legacy when I die.
John Caudwell
Charity
Confused
Wealth
Will
Charitable
Directly
Most
Leave
Legacy
Die
Children
Decided
Which
Helps
Foundation
Receive
I'm a capitalist. I'm not going to feel sympathetic to people leading a life they don't have to lead who, with effort, could maybe break out of it.
John Caudwell
Life
People
Out
Could
Lead
Feel
Leading
Effort
Going
Maybe
Break
Capitalist
Who
Sympathetic
Taxes aren't the way to go. They'd strangle the economy; you wouldn't create the wealth. And nothing squanders money as well as a government. What we need is to encourage rich people to give.
John Caudwell
Government
You
People
Money
Wealth
Rich
Nothing
Way
Give
Economy
Well
Go
Encourage
Taxes
Rich People
Create
Strangle
Need
I considered several names, but Titania, a character from Shakespeare's 'Midsummer Night's Dream', was best able to portray the image I wanted for what is a fantastically elegant and sexy yacht.
John Caudwell
Best
Character
Considered
Several
Dream
Sexy
Able
Shakespeare
Names
Yacht
Wanted
Elegant
Image
Portray
Night
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