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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.

~Ben Elliot

Topics: Any Because Believe Feel Hear Life Part People Right Right Way Saying Things Want Way You Your

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I think people might say I'm a bit of a sucker for punishment.

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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.

~Ben Elliot

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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.

~Ben Elliot

Topics: Attitude Banks Childhood Deserve Done Enjoy Farms Father Got Had Instilled Local Me Older Really Shops Something Spent Unless Working You Yourself

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I have to be passionate about everything I do.

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Topics: About Everything Passionate

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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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Topics: Around Better Bill Business Every Every Time Goes Help Help People Out People Rather Speak Than Them Time You

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I'm not going to complain to New Yorkers about working too hard.

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Topics: About Complain Going Hard New New Yorkers Too Working

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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.

~Ben Elliot

Topics: Am Big Big Deal Day Days Deal Eat Life Most Nature Necessarily New New Yorkers No Big Deal Out Proud Simply Something Three Times Year I Am

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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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Topics: Boarding Eating English Food Having List Long Low Obsession Out Partly Pretty Schools Spent Where Years 1980S

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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.

~Ben Elliot

Topics: Amount Apologize Attitude Best Choices Conversations Far Issue Long Me Ordering Others People Ruined Spend Too

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Businessman

Born: August 11th, 1975

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