Duncan Bannatyne Quotes

101 Duncan Bannatyne Quotes (Dragons Den Quotes, Bannatyne Health Club Quotes)

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The best reason to start a business is because the customer needs it.
Duncan Bannatyne

The advice you don’t want to hear is probably the advice you should listen to the most!
Duncan Bannatyne

I learn something from everyone I meet.
Duncan Bannatyne

At the age of 30, I was a penniless beach bum. At the age of 37, I was a millionaire.
Duncan Bannatyne

Good management can make a good company great.
Duncan Bannatyne

All businesses face hurdles and obstacles. It is how we tackle them that shapes our success.
Duncan Bannatyne

Getting advice in business isn’t hard, but getting good advice is.
Duncan Bannatyne

The buck stops with me.
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I don’t think I’d be as successful running a big business now if I hadn’t once been responsible for every single aspect of a much smaller business.
Duncan Bannatyne

Good ideas rarely make good businesses.
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Businesses need bloody good ideas to thrive.
Duncan Bannatyne

When I am determined to do something, I usually do it.
Duncan Bannatyne

You have to make your own chances.
Duncan Bannatyne

I always preferred to talk my way out of trouble.
Duncan Bannatyne

I honestly believe that anyone can make 1 million pounds, even 100 million pounds.
Duncan Bannatyne

Starting a business is, I believe, the best option for people whose skills don’t fit the job marketplace.
Duncan Bannatyne

Nothing teaches you how to adapt to change like starting a business.
Duncan Bannatyne

All it takes to run a business is common sense.
Duncan Bannatyne

We all have to sell something…
Duncan Bannatyne

Good salespeople make other people happy.
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I am far more likely to invest in a company if the founding entrepreneurs have already invested in it themselves.
Duncan Bannatyne

The more money you have, the more power you have to create change.
Duncan Bannatyne

A business is not just a good idea, it is a venture that produces revenue at such a level that it makes a profit.
Duncan Bannatyne

There’s nothing like having someone you trust pointing out shortcomings and oversights.
Duncan Bannatyne

One of the hardest lessons I’ve learned along the way was that the advice you don’t want to hear is probably the advice you should listen to the most!
Duncan Bannatyne

If there is one single over-riding reason why businesses fail it is because the person or people in charge of them think that someone else will sort out their problems.
Duncan Bannatyne

Let me make it clear: you are responsible for everything your business does.
Duncan Bannatyne

If the market has changed, why hasn’t your business responded to that change?
Duncan Bannatyne

People often think that success in business comes from being ruthless, but I don’t think that’s true: in my experience success in business comes from being tough. Tough enough to do the dirty jobs and tough enough to make the difficult decisions.
Duncan Bannatyne

I’ve found that as soon as the line of responsibility becomes blurred, there is room for error.
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New entrepreneurs are very vulnerable to thinking their expertise and knowledge is worth less than those of the people they surround themselves with.
Duncan Bannatyne

A good business for you might not be a good business for me…
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Starting a new business based on a good idea is hard enough. Starting with a bad idea? You’d have to be a masochist.
Duncan Bannatyne

Working for yourself, creating a company that makes its customers happy and nurtures its staff is one of the most remarkable journeys you can go on.
Duncan Bannatyne

Isn’t it time you took your first step? And if not now, when? If you don’t do it, somebody else will.
Duncan Bannatyne

Making 100 million pounds is so easy anyone can do it.
Duncan Bannatyne

I made my money without sector expertise, contacts or capital. I never had a USP, never had ‘first mover advantage’ or invented anything, and I didn’t even do anything unique or that someone else couldn’t have done. What I did have was a Yellow Pages and some determination – and that’s all it takes.
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I do know that if you had a childhood like mine, you’ll never get bored of using private jets, owning luxury villas or staying in the best hotels.
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I think I always wanted life to be more exciting than it was.
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I was determined that when I grew up I would have a car and that my children would have bikes and as many ice creams as they wanted.
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