Nick Candy

Possessions are always secondary, loved ones are all that matters.

Our aim is to compete with any luxury brand. Candy & Candy will be a luxury brand, recognised in Rodeo Drive, New York, Dubai, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo and London. Those are the major centres in the world. It will be synonymous with the design of homes, houses, flats, yachts, aircraft and retail.

We started learning ourselves, understanding ourselves, reading, researching, going around the world and looking at what was defined as the very best.

We’ve got a Rolls-Royce Phantom, a Mercedes SLR McLaren, a Cherokee Jeep, and … a Renault Clio! We’ve had Ferraris, Aston Martins, Porsches. We’ve probably got about 10 cars.

Our clients pay for value. London is the top city in the world, the best tax haven in the world for some and the top residential site in the city is One Hyde Park at the top end of Sloane Street.

No one should buy on reputation alone. They should come and see it and inspect it, feel it and touch it.

We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are.

Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don’t expect it from cheap people.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Three most deleterious things of modern life in their present order of importance are: tobacco, alcohol and intemperate eating. Both alcohol and tobacco are taboo in plants.

This morning I woke with my ear pressed between shoulder blades. Every inhale, every drum, every pump, thump of your heartbeat said one thing – home, home, home.

It’s terribly unfair that we should have to suffer like this.

We’re cool for the summer.

Opinions are like asses, every body’s got one!

Instinct is probably the essence of past experience and knowledge stored up for later use. There are many, you know, who think that this life journey through the world is not the first one we have made. Haven’t you ever come across children who knew things that it was impossible for them to have learned? Have you ever gone to a place for the first time and felt sure that you had been there before? That’s one of the reasons I do not travel much.

I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.