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Peter Jones is hot.
I don't look for praise.
I didn't want to get married.
I'm not particularly tactile.
I am not intimidating, I am forthright!
I was never good at taking instructions.
I'm impervious to charm. I can see through it.
I love the ingenuity of British entrepreneurs.
I think I've got more humour than comes across.
I hate getting things wrong and I hate failing.
Loving something doesn't make it a good investment.
Running the country is like running one big business.
I did ballroom dancing at school, but I was atrocious.
I love the full-on Hollywood glamour of the 1930s and '40s.
Sometimes, lovely surprises come out of things going wrong.
Provided someone can persuade me, I will invest in anything.
I am not just sitting in my office making deals all the time.
But it's no good letting your emotions get the better of you.
I don't think I'm ruthless, but I'm very driven, irritatingly so.
I'm very direct, I don't believe in wasting time, in wasting words.
I don't actually like dogs smelling of anything other than natural dogs.
I hardly ever swear. So when I do, my husband knows it's extremely serious.
I consider my position in the business world not as a woman but as a person.
I don't like shopping and I'm lucky enough to have a stylist to do it for me.
Dragons' Den' is about as close to real business as you can get on television.
Money is not the ultimate point, but it remains the actual measure of success.
My parents are not nurturers. They're a bit like me: do a good job and move on.
I'm deeply impatient. If I can't park directly in front of somewhere, I go home.
I am a very loyal person and believe that people should be treated fairly in life.
I don't exactly know the moment that I was a millionaire but it was in my twenties.
Nearly everybody, when they first meet me, seems to have this sense of trepidation.
I care a lot about animal welfare and children. Although I don't have children myself.
I'm not great at taking compliments because I always find the thing I could do better.
You can't beat a bar of chocolate between cheap white bread - there is nothing like it.
I won't get involved in businesses that I think cut across any kind of animal welfare issues.
I'm quite a restless holidaymaker - I can't lie down on the sand and don't like too much heat.
To be honest, I've made a lot mistakes and I quite like making them because you learn from them.
I am a more rounded person than you see on television. You don't bark your way to being a success.
Nobody is like the person I am on TV, surely, only Cruella de Vil, or the wicked witch from Snow White.
I have no problem paying taxes. It doesn't bother me, because I want to live in a society that's happy.
I'm not a fearful person, I have no phobias of rats, snakes, spiders, nothing. I'm lucky in that sense.
I'm not a woman in the 'Den,' I'm a Dragon, we're all there to invest, it has nothing to do with gender.
When I first started on 'Dragons' Den,' I was under pressure to buy flashy cars and boats but I resisted.
Business doesn't cut you any slack because of your gender. You're either good at what you do or you're not.
Feminism doesn't have a particularly constructive image, although I think there was time when it was relevant.
If someone needs help, I don't do tea and sympathy, but I'm honest and practical - that's how I was brought up.
You need emotional intelligence; to be happy to take risks; to be competitive and to look forward not backwards.
Both my parents were entrepreneurs and built a nice leisure business. But money was tight when I was growing up.
I am proud of the fact I would never tamper with my looks. I love the fact I have earned every line and wrinkle.
I started off in the leisure industry and now I find myself as the DIY queen - I'm not quite sure how that happened!