A Quote by Theo Paphitis

'Dragons' Den' and 'The Apprentice' have opened people's eyes to what they can do.

Theo Paphitis

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Theo Paphitis
British - Businessman
Born: September 24, 1959

What the entrepreneur gets on 'Dragons' Den' is direct access to people with masses of experience who can actually make quick decisions.

Theo Paphitis

My biggest television weakness is 'Dragons' Den.'

Martin Parr

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.

Deborah Meaden

Dragons' Den' is about as close to real business as you can get on television.

Deborah Meaden

When I first started on 'Dragons' Den,' I was under pressure to buy flashy cars and boats but I resisted.

Deborah Meaden

When I was on 'Dragons' Den,' most of the letters I received were from people under 16. They wrote about their ideas, their views, their challenges. The audience is actually a very young audience.

Theo Paphitis

If someone comes onto 'Dragons' Den' and annoys me, I'm going to tell them exactly what I think.

Peter Jones

If I'm filming 'Dragons' Den', we work flat out until 8pm, although I love seeing the weird, wonderful and plain delusional.

Peter Jones

Having been a fan of 'Dragons' Den' since it first aired in 2005 I was absolutely delighted and proud to have the opportunity of becoming a Dragon myself.

Sara Davies

The reality in business and in 'Dragons' Den' is you win some, and you lose some.

Theo Paphitis

If you look at all the investments made during 'Dragons' Den,' the ratio of those that make it to those that don't is actually extremely high.

Theo Paphitis

I think a lot of people are getting bored of audition-based shows, along the lines of 'Strictly Come Dancing' or 'The X-Factor'. I know I am. But 'Dragons' Den' will have a longer shelf-life than all of them because it's fundamentally real in a way that other shows aren't.

Peter Jones

Much as I'm loving the 'Strictly' experience, I'm sure I'll always be better known for my business career and my appearances on 'Dragons' Den' than I will for my cha-cha-cha or Viennese waltz.

Deborah Meaden

People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.

Ursula K. Le Guin

September 11 definitely opened our eyes, but when I was 19 or whatever on the last record, we just didn't care about anything. We were too young to care about anything. And then as you get older, you don't really have any excuse to be stupid anymore, to be in the dark. That just kind of opened everyone's eyes (which I probably wish it did to more people) that there's obviously something wrong, to try and figure out what it is and what's going on in the world.