Nick Candy

Chris and I came from nothing. We’re selfmade. We started with nothing, so we have nothing to lose. And we have everything to gain.

There is a time and place for all things to be successful. There is fate and destiny and opportunity, and you need all three things in line at the same time.

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

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.

Sometimes our idea of luxuries are our client’s ideas of necessities. You might think having a helicopter pad in the back garden, 20 housekeepers and two tennis coaches is over the top. But for them it’s like you buying a sandwich.

I’m embarrassed to say a good chick flick – I’m an old romantic.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.

Do not spend too much time planning or trying to anticipate and solve problems before they happen. That is just another kind of excuse for procrastination. Until you start, you won’t know where the problems will occur. You won’t have the experience to solve them. Instead, get into action, and solve the problems as they arise.

Salesmanship is limitless. Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople.

Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.

You can’t do this! We have an arrangement! We have a contract!

In the Ford Motor Company we emphasize service equally with sales.

I never made any public statements, at least I tried never to make any public statements. I know I don’t do it well, I become very nervous, I forget what it is that I mean to say, I can’t really convey my logic and my thought to the journalists, so I decided this is not my thing, I really shouldn’t be doing it.

Anything that is not right, whether it temporarily favors the employees or the employers, cannot last-because it is not right.

I really don’t retain information – by the time I arrive wherever I’m going, I already forget what it is that I wanted to say.

Depressions aren’t acts of God; like wars, they are the work of a small group of men who profit by them.

I don’t know the exact details of his background but from what I have read Mr. Abramovich had a very humble start in life and has made his own luck.

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.