100 Quotes by Deborah Meaden

I'm not particularly tactile.

If someone needs help, I don't do tea and sympathy, but I'm honest and practical - that's how I was brought up.

I'm not a fearful person, I have no phobias of rats, snakes, spiders, nothing. I'm lucky in that sense.

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.

I think the thing about business is that it's not completely separate to life. You're selling to people so it's all about life skills - and common sense.

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.

I often see people who I think could be really successful in business but they just don't realise they have the skills and they don't believe in themselves.

I am a more rounded person than you see on television. You don't bark your way to being a success.

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.