Ben Elliot Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Ben Elliot:
I eat out three times a day most days of the year. This is no big deal to most New Yorkers, and it is not something I am necessarily proud of - it's simply the nature of my itinerant life.
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For me, a stay at the Uma Paro with Pilates every morning is a perfect escape.
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My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food was pretty low on the list.
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With offices in 64 cities around the world, it is sometimes a challenge to ensure that I've got my finger on the pulse with every one, everywhere. Staying in touch means early rising for calls with China and Japan, and late calls with the U.S.
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Now if I don't take exercise I feel a bit frazzled.
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I have to be passionate about everything I do.
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What goes around comes around in business, and it's better to help people out rather than bill them every time you speak to them.
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A lot of my work is about developing relationships with corporate partners such as Jaguar and Diageo.
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It's not marriage that I crave. Many of my friends who have married are pretty miserable. Within a year and a half, most of them are either unhappy or divorced.
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When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.
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In summer, my Sundays are often taken up with cricket. I play with a bunch of other over-competitive and overenthusiastic guys who I have known for a very long time.
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If people don't feel they've got your attention, you're not going to succeed.
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I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics or a non-government organisation when I left. I might well do this later on. I'd love to represent a West Country seat in the House of Commons.
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I don't believe that saying things because you feel they are what people want to hear is the right way to be in any part of your life.
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'Concierge' comes from the Latin for 'slave.'
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In my heart and soul, I am a West Country man, and ideally, my weekends are spent there.
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Buenos Aires is easily one of the most stylish cities in the world with its eclectic collection of neighborhoods, each with its own unique charm.
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In the same way I am addicted to puddings - the sweeter the better - I have become addicted to the daily routines my Pilates and Gyrotonic guru, Nada, puts me through.
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When the truth does not get printed, damage is done.
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For me, life is not about gold taps and marble all over the place.
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Since I travel to the four corners of this planet for work, I don't need sun holidays or that kind of thing.
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Since childhood, I have been a cricket fanatic.
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I'm a creature of habit and tend to favour small, traditional English businesses.
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I'm not going to complain to New Yorkers about working too hard.
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I have an issue with others ordering for me, and I spend far too long haranguing people that my choices are the best. I apologize for the amount of conversations I have ruined with this attitude.
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When I lived in New York, I discovered these Russian & Turkish Baths in East 10th Street. Great for a platza treatment - plus, you'll run into the world and his wife there.
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My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had done something to deserve it. So, my childhood was spent working on farms or local shops or, when I got older, in banks.
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I definitely like sorting stuff out, and I have the enthusiasm to try and help.
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Once you're involved in a business, it's part of what you do. It's the way you are.
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I've always been fascinated by India and its color and vibrancy. I worked in Madhya Pradesh in the Kanha National Game reserve before university, and it is probably the most intoxicating country I have ever visited.
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Art is the ultimate luxury good, but one that can make you think, give a you a blast of beauty and enhance your life. Even if the work's made of plasticine.
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The way I choose to live my own life rates time and space as real luxuries.
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I don't set out to be connected. My business has allowed me to meet lots of interesting people, some of whom have become friends; but you can't force it. This terrible word - 'networking' - I really hate.
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I mainly read histories and biographies, but I'm also a big fan of Graham Swift and Thomas Hardy.
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I knew Quintessentially was a success when my father, who does a lot of business in Beirut, introduced himself to somebody and they said, 'Oh, do you know Ben Elliot? I'd really like to meet him.' I remember him ringing me up, really annoyed.
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There are a lot of laws from Europe about employing people which are absolute nonsense.
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I think people might say I'm a bit of a sucker for punishment.
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Fastidious attention to detail makes the difference between an OK service and first class service.
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A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish.
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