A lot of my work is about developing relationships with corporate partners such as Jaguar and Diageo. Ben Elliot Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Ben Elliot Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Ben Elliot Read Quote
In the same way I am addicted to puddings – the sweeter the better – I have become addicted to the daily routines my Pilates and Gyrotonic guru, Nada, puts me through. Ben Elliot Read Quote