Michelle Mone
Michelle Mone
Michelle Georgina Mone, Baroness Mone, OBEis a British entrepreneur and parliamentarian...
ProfessionBusiness Executive
Date of Birth7 October 1971
ants pushed quite work
I was quite good, but not excellent. I pushed myself to work hard, but I had ants in my pants. I used to get bored.
company earned record strength year
Now the company is going from strength to strength, ... We've tripled our turnover in a year and we've earned record profits.
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It's like a footballer from a working class background; they're given all this money and fast cars and it goes to their heads a wee bit and I think it went to my head a wee bit.
bit carried
I think when I first started out I got a bit carried away with myself,
announcing five four major next signed weeks within
I will be announcing within the next four weeks that we have signed up five major celebrities.
I will never give up. I never have, even when times have been terrible.
dirty water inspire
I love the water; it inspires me, even if it is dirty London water that I look at.
jobs hate media
The thing is with the media, I have a love-hate relationship with [it]. [Journalists] are only doing their jobs and you can't get your own way all the time.
school next something-new
Every day is a school day. I learn something new every day, and I never know what's going to happen next.
ideas together unions
I thought not being part of the [Britain] union was a bad idea. We are better together. It was dangerous for business as there were no [concrete] plans around the currency or the economy.
rooftops personal-life
I have always shouted from the rooftops about my businesses but I had never ever spoken about my personal life.
believe healthy cleansing
I am not a professional coach but I believe being healthy inside and out and cleansing your demons ... helps you perform better in business and become a more positive person.
successful people obese
Yes, some people will say you get successful obese businesspeople. But are they happy? Probably not.
lonely mistake fighting
What happened in my personal life affected my career too. I am not perfect and I have made a lot of mistakes. Being an entrepreneur is incredibly lonely. There were many hurdles along the way. From starting out, to making it, and almost losing it, to fighting back, to nearly losing it all again. There have been extreme highs and extreme lows.