100 Quotes by Deborah Meaden

My parents felt I should earn my money because I would then value it. So they would pay me a shilling or two to do jobs such as washing the car, cleaning and washing up.

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.

I am not intimidating, I am forthright!

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.

I'm deeply impatient. If I can't park directly in front of somewhere, I go home.

To be honest, I've made a lot mistakes and I quite like making them because you learn from them.

I don't spend a lot of time worrying about how I look and I don't fall into the trap of judging myself by my appearance.

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?

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.