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Peter Hargreaves Quotes
Peter Hargreaves
British
Businessman
Born:
Oct 5
,
1946
Business
Life
People
Think
Time
You
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I have wanted to run my own business since my time at Clitheroe grammar school. I remember thinking if I could get a penny from everyone in Britain, I would earn £208,000 a year.
Peter Hargreaves
Time
Business
Remember
School
Penny
Year
Own
Thinking
Earn
Everyone
Run
Would
My Own
My Time
Could
Since
Get
Wanted
Grammar
Grammar School
If I Could
Britain
I love criticism. Equitable Life went down because management wouldn't brook criticism, but if you are in business, you have to hear what's going wrong.
Peter Hargreaves
Life
Love
You
Business
Management
Criticism
Down
Brook
Wrong
Because
Equitable
Hear
Going
We need an honest politician in charge who doesn't care whether they are re-elected and is prepared to make the unpopular decisions.
Peter Hargreaves
Care
Politician
Charge
Unpopular
Re-Elected
Make
Whether
Decisions
Who
Prepared
Need
Honest
People in retail banks are not smart. They have a business model that's quite difficult to not make money out of - but still they somehow manage it.
Peter Hargreaves
Business
People
Money
Smart
Difficult
Out
Somehow
Retail
Make
Still
Model
Manage
Quite
Banks
Business Model
Quite often, people who build big businesses don't believe anyone else can run them, and you end up with an old rascal in their 70s and no one to take them on. I could name several - and I won't - who put themselves in that invidious position.
Peter Hargreaves
You
People
Old
Big
Build
Believe
Else
Several
Run
Rascal
Could
Take
No-One
Put
Name
End
Up
Quite
Often
Anyone
Anyone Else
Them
Themselves
Who
Businesses
Position
Money in property is dead money. It doesn't help the country. It's funny how the U.K., Ireland and Spain are the most property-obsessed nations in Europe and yet are also the ones suffering the most.
Peter Hargreaves
Funny
Property
Suffering
Money
Country
Most
Also
Dead
How
Ireland
Nations
Spain
Help
Europe
I couldn't have predicted the business would be worth so much. I could see that we would have this sort of market share, but I didn't realise the numbers would be so large.
Peter Hargreaves
Business
Worth
Market
Market Share
Would
Would-Be
See
Could
Share
Sort
Predicted
Realise
Much
Large
Numbers
I think I've been a moderately good boss. I've made a lot of people extremely wealthy - I think we've created 30 millionaires.
Peter Hargreaves
Good
People
Made
Think
Extremely
Wealthy
Boss
Been
Lot
Moderately
Created
Millionaires
Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think.
Peter Hargreaves
Think
Aim
Our
Tell
Clients
Them
Themselves
Help
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