“I just wasn't academic. I wanted to be in the real world.” — John Caudwell Quote

“I just wasn't academic. I wanted to be in the real world.”

“'Titania' is the best yacht currently afloat of its kind and size. There is very little, if anything, that anybody would go wanting for on 'Titania.'”

“I was only 21 when I bought a five-bedroom detached house in Stoke-on-Trent that was way outside of my financial status in life. I did it by borrowing money from my family and the bank, taking out a huge mortgage.”

“I was a real unfocused academic student, always fiddling around in class, or doing something silly and thinking of something else that had nothing to do with school.”

“I was like, 'I'm an academic!' I'm not at all. It turns out I'm not great at that.”

“My parents both work in publishing, and I was a bright, academic kind of kid, and I read a lot of books, and when you read a lot, I guess the muscle that gets exercised is where you can hear the voices in your head. You can turn words into pictures and into sounds and into colours and smells.”