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I'm very direct, I don't believe in wasting time, in wasting words.
— Deborah Meaden
People can be very serious with me, and expect me to be very businesslike all the time. So I have to help them get over that by showing them that I enjoy life.
— Deborah Meaden
I am not intimidating, I am forthright!
— Deborah Meaden
Feminism doesn't have a particularly constructive image, although I think there was time when it was relevant.
— Deborah Meaden
When I first started on 'Dragons' Den,' I was under pressure to buy flashy cars and boats but I resisted.
— Deborah Meaden
I have no problem paying taxes. It doesn't bother me, because I want to live in a society that's happy.
— Deborah Meaden
Peter Jones is hot.
— Deborah Meaden
I love the ingenuity of British entrepreneurs.
— Deborah Meaden
I need quite a lot going on, so a perfect holiday for me is one in a cooler climate with wonderful scenery, animals or great architecture.
— Deborah Meaden
Money is not the ultimate point, but it remains the actual measure of success.
— Deborah Meaden
If you're looking for investment you've got to think about what the investor gets from being involved with your business. A lot of people think about what they're getting from their point of view but not about what the investor gets out of a deal.
— Deborah Meaden
I started off in the leisure industry and now I find myself as the DIY queen - I'm not quite sure how that happened!
— Deborah Meaden
My parents are not nurturers. They're a bit like me: do a good job and move on.
— Deborah Meaden
I'm not a fearful person, I have no phobias of rats, snakes, spiders, nothing. I'm lucky in that sense.
— Deborah Meaden
Provided someone can persuade me, I will invest in anything.
— Deborah Meaden
I don't like shopping and I'm lucky enough to have a stylist to do it for me.
— Deborah Meaden
I use my clothes to make my day better - for example, if it's a dull day, I'll wear something bright to cheer myself up.
— Deborah Meaden
I think Cate Blanchett always gets it right. She seems very natural and wears interesting but not ridiculous clothes - she seems to push the boundaries just enough.
— Deborah Meaden
I don't think I'm ruthless, but I'm very driven, irritatingly so.
— Deborah Meaden
I suffer from reverse body dysmorphia. When I look in the mirror I see somebody slimmer. It's quite a shock to see myself on TV, especially on widescreen.
— Deborah Meaden
I hardly ever swear. So when I do, my husband knows it's extremely serious.
— Deborah Meaden
I form opinions quickly.
— Deborah Meaden
A lot of people on holiday get very intolerant of things that go wrong, but getting wound up about the plane being late won't make it come any sooner.
— Deborah Meaden
I am not just sitting in my office making deals all the time.
— Deborah Meaden
If people have got an amazing opportunity such as on 'Dragons' Den' and they mess it up by being lazy with their presentation it does make me a bit cross.
— Deborah Meaden
To be honest, I've made a lot mistakes and I quite like making them because you learn from them.
— Deborah Meaden
I'm not going to be told that I shouldn't be doing anything, or behaving in any particular way at any age of my life.
— Deborah Meaden
I feel like the luckiest person alive. I spend my life doing the stuff I love. I'm surrounded by inventive people who are full of energy and life.
— Deborah Meaden
As an entrepreneur and employer, in the fairly recent past I have been astonished at how difficult it has been to get young people to take the idea of getting a job seriously.
— Deborah Meaden
Dragons' Den' is about as close to real business as you can get on television.
— Deborah Meaden
You need emotional intelligence; to be happy to take risks; to be competitive and to look forward not backwards.
— Deborah Meaden
Sometimes, lovely surprises come out of things going wrong.
— Deborah Meaden
People can call me what they like - fat, ugly, sour - but tell me I'm not fair, tell me I'm not ethical, those are the things that bother me.
— Deborah Meaden
I don't exactly know the moment that I was a millionaire but it was in my twenties.
— Deborah Meaden
We have a very good history of manufacturing in this country but I worry that these skills are being lost. We walk around saying, 'We haven't got any manufacturing any more' but Made In Britain really means something, particularly in other parts of the world. We need to support British manufacturing.
— Deborah Meaden
Nobody is like the person I am on TV, surely, only Cruella de Vil, or the wicked witch from Snow White.
— Deborah Meaden
Retirement has never, ever crossed my mind. And I honestly can't imagine when or why it would. If you're doing the thing you love, why on earth would you want to stop doing it?
— Deborah Meaden
My friends would say I'm not the person to go to for tea, a cuddle and sympathy, because I can't deliver. But if you want something sorted out and need a champion who will stand by your side, that is me.
— Deborah Meaden
If someone needs help, I don't do tea and sympathy, but I'm honest and practical - that's how I was brought up.
— Deborah Meaden
I have definitely learnt in business that when you have a smart, engaged entrepreneur with good judgement they can really drive even a mediocre business forward so to me the entrepreneur is very important.
— Deborah Meaden
I think I've got more humour than comes across.
— Deborah Meaden
When I concentrate, my face is deadpan and I can see there is a coldness there - when I'm making business decisions I know I can be quite dispassionate.
— Deborah Meaden
I don't look for praise.
— Deborah Meaden
I'm not scared of many sectors, so if you look at my investment portfolio, it is pretty wide. I've invested in anything from market research firms to fashion houses and textile companies.
— Deborah Meaden
Playing the piano was what I loved doing for myself, but as soon as it became a 'thing' that I was being pushed to pursue by my teachers, I rebelled.
— Deborah Meaden
I love the full-on Hollywood glamour of the 1930s and '40s.
— Deborah Meaden
I had my first flower stall when I was seven, at the end of the drive in Minehead, Somerset. Nobody was stopping so I moved it to my neighbour's drive, because I thought: 'Location, location, location.' It worked.
— Deborah Meaden
I hate getting things wrong and I hate failing.
— Deborah Meaden
I'm impervious to charm. I can see through it.
— Deborah Meaden
I'm not a feminist.
— Deborah Meaden
I consider my position in the business world not as a woman but as a person.
— Deborah Meaden
I'm quite a restless holidaymaker - I can't lie down on the sand and don't like too much heat.
— Deborah Meaden
People think I am a workaholic but I just love business.
— Deborah Meaden
You give power to issues if you pay a lot of attention to them. The more attention you give them the more power they have. So the most powerful thing you can do is just get on and ignore it.
— Deborah Meaden
I've got a lot of laughter lines. You don't get laughter lines on your face without having a lot of fun in your life.
— Deborah Meaden
People who buy your product or use your service don't care how tall or short you are, or what gender you are, or your age. It is irrelevant. That is not the basis on which your product is judged.
— Deborah Meaden
Much as I'm loving the 'Strictly' experience, I'm sure I'll always be better known for my business career and my appearances on 'Dragons' Den' than I will for my cha-cha-cha or Viennese waltz.
— Deborah Meaden
You don't have to start with your dream job, and your idea of what the dream job might be will change during a working life that will have its share of ups and downs, setbacks and advances.
— Deborah Meaden
Loving something doesn't make it a good investment.
— Deborah Meaden
You need to tell people where they stand. If someone's done a good job, you should tell them they've done damn well. But if they haven't, you should take the same attitude.
— Deborah Meaden
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