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Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think.

~Peter Hargreaves

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My greatest pleasure is going out on a horrible, cold, wet January morning to pick the vegetables for our Sunday lunch, putting them in a muddy pile on the table, and then spending 45 minutes washing and preparing them. I like doing it because it's so different to what I do in the week. The same holds for cleaning the car or shining my shoes.

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I knew my successor would be better than me for the next stage of the company's life. And it was a relief - I'd been doing it for 30 years. My only worry was what the hell I was going to do with my time.

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I think I've been a moderately good boss. I've made a lot of people extremely wealthy - I think we've created 30 millionaires.

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I love criticism. Equitable Life went down because management wouldn't brook criticism, but if you are in business, you have to hear what's going wrong.

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I have wanted to run my own business since my time at Clitheroe grammar school. I remember thinking if I could get a penny from everyone in Britain, I would earn £208,000 a year.

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Income-producing unit trusts are brilliant because if you can accept capital values will be volatile for a while, your dividend income will always be higher than what you get in the bank.

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Other men have created FTSE 100 companies. But I believe no man has done this in his lifetime without acquisition or borrowing. My one regret is handing over the reigns.

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Range Rovers are the greenest cars on the road.

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We need an honest politician in charge who doesn't care whether they are re-elected and is prepared to make the unpopular decisions.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Businessman

Born: October 5th, 1946

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