Nick Candy

It’s true we’ve got some fantastic clients. We’re very fortunate to be connected with the movers and shakers of all the global cities of the world. You can usually tell when we’ve got a client in here because their bodyguards are all over the place: two outside the front door, two in the lobby, one in the lift…

In New York and Los Angeles, you can throw your car keys to the valet and he parks it. Same in Hong Kong and Singapore, the service is off the scale. In London it’s sub-standard to abysmal.

London has got better as it’s become more international – you only have to look at the quality of the restaurants to see how improved it’s become.

I get my design inspiration from Christian Dior and Chanel.

I have had the top people in the world into One Hyde Park, and they have seen everything and they say there is nothing quite like this.

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.

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

Blood banks are all closed; you can’t use others to keep you warm.

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.’ -Regarding Great War Peace Ship

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Children have helped me a lot.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

You never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.

When you allow a person’s words to upset you, you’re giving away your power.

Don’t make me put your head in my blender!

Now payback is a bad bitch and baby, I’m the baddest.

I don’t have any bad habbits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they’re all right for me.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn’t correct. We all start with all there is, it’s how we use it that makes things possible.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.

The point of quotations is that one can use another’s words to be insulting.