Nick Candy

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.

When you are in real estate, you are going to make some mistakes.

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

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

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.

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

You don’t learn to walk by following rules, you learn by doing and by falling over.

I must have had a dozen jobs and I got fired from all of them.

To be most effective in sales today, it’s imperative to drop your ‘sales’ mentality and start working with your prospects as if they’ve already hired you.

You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

The other people I don’t take too seriously are the critics-except when they stand in the way of my projects. In my opinion, they mostly write to impress each other, and they’re just as swayed by fashions as anyone else. One week it’s spare glass towers they are praising to the skies. The next week, they’ve rediscovered old, and they’re celebrating detail and ornamentation.

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

I’ve learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.

The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.

Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about ‘hard work’ without having a corresponding result to show for it.

I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image.

I don’t make deals for the money. I’ve got enough, much more than I’ll ever need. I do it to do it.

One client didn’t want to go out so had us build him a nightclub in his house.

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…

I have very good executives and great children. They’re very good.

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make.