Lloyd Dorfman Quotes

If you are going to think the same as everyone else and do the same as everyone else, you will end up being the same as everyone else. In today’s competitive environment you have to think a bit differently.

Am I a frustrated performer? My wife would say I am! I guess there has to be something of the performer in you if you build a global business.

I do have a fundamental concern about us losing control of our own destiny, and this is not just about the euro. You can expand and extend it into the whole constitutional issue. The British people have been suckered with regard to how the whole currency and constitutional issues have been sold to them.

I don’t play golf, and I’m not into horse racing.

Individual and corporate support is vital to building on London’s leadership in the arts, and I hope others will join me in wanting to build on the National’s role at the heart of modern theatre and sustaining it long into the future.

We are quite a way off before people travel around the world without cash in their pockets. The growth of plastic and electronic transactions have tended to impact traveller’s cheques rather than cash.

Travelex has grown into a global business in just 25 years. The acquisition of Thomas Cook’s Global & Financial Services has created a business that would have had a combined turnover of U.S. $28.4 billion in 2000.

The idea of going into the property business and collecting rent four times a year and waiting for five-year rent reviews has limited appeal.

With Indian migrants all over the world, money transfer is a big business in India.

I’ve always loved and enjoyed the theatre, but I have to say that none of our sponsorships have been done because I’m one of those chairmen and chief executives who goes gooey-eyed about something. They are done for a very specific marketing and commercial agenda.

If you’ve been fortunate enough to have some success in business, I think it’s important to put something back.

People travel because it’s a treat. For me, staying at home is a treat.

I think as a business it would be amazing if the euro was to collapse, but financially and economically I think that would be a bit of a tsunami for everybody to cope with.

At school, I would read the City pages before I read the sports pages.

By all means, let’s have free trade and no trade barriers and a common market. But where did it all suddenly become about our own economic and political destiny being surrendered to Brussels with agendas that arguably have very little to do with the interests of the British people and British voters?

When I started the business, only banks operated at airports, only banks issued travellers’ cheques, only banks issued international payments, only banks serviced their own branch networks.