I would be the first to say that while a lack of money can cause misery, money doesn't buy you happiness. John Caudwell More Quotes by John Caudwell More Quotes From John Caudwell In the early days, I had everything to prove. A very working class lad with a burning ambition. A very crude way of measuring success is how much you are worth. John Caudwell you ambition success way My objective is to leave my family adequately catered for, but I want my children to make their own way. I want them to have pride in their own achievements. John Caudwell family pride children way I do want to keep the Wedgewood Collection in place, intact, and open to the public. Selling it off would be a real tragedy. John Caudwell place tragedy real want Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that after I left school. John Caudwell doing job time school I might have made more money if I had outsourced to India, and I knew I'd find it easier to hire senior managers in London. But I wanted to be in Stoke. What could be more satisfying than creating work for 3,000 people in my home town? John Caudwell money work home people I didn't want my epitaph to read 'Here lies John Caudwell, billionaire.' I knew that wasn't enough. I've had a charitable instinct all my life, but working gave me no time for it. John Caudwell my-life me time life Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect. John Caudwell childhood money work father Knowing that my ancestry had all been quite wealthy and owned their own businesses probably left me with the ambition to replicate what they'd done. John Caudwell own me done ambition I'm in the lucky position that I can help a huge amount of people. It's a great privilege and freedom to have. John Caudwell great freedom i-can people I'm a wealth creator. I'm not interested in saving in the least. While I do spend a lot, I don't spend money like other billionaires. I'm probably quite unusual, albeit I do have some of the significant trappings. But I always try to make my assets work for a living. John Caudwell try wealth money work Before I really even understood what the term meant, I wanted to be wealthy. I wanted to be able to drive the beautiful old Rolls-Royces my father admired when I was a child. John Caudwell drive child beautiful father
