A biography for Karren Bradyhasn’t been written yet.
“On 'The Apprentice,' I'm 100 per cent certain I'm paid the same as Claude Littner. I insisted on equality when I negotiated my contract. I would not have allowed anything else.”
“The most important characteristics you need to succeed in business are resilience, determination and persistence.”
“I used to love villas when the kids were small but now I like hotels.”
“The one thing I wanted was independence. And I realised to have that independence, you needed financial independence.”
“I want people to think about what I have achieved and not what I look like.”
“I think it's a very old fashioned attitude, that you've got to wear short skirts and a lot of make up to get on in life. I think most women look at that and laugh. I think those are antiquated views from a bygone age that thankfully is no longer around.”
“If I'm going to spend money, I'd rather it be on a fabulous location or food, not gambling.”
“You have to have a very thick skin to run a business.”
“I've experienced a lot of sexism in football.”
“I love to think about business. It's what makes me happy.”
“I love knowing that if I was dropped off in Trafalgar Square, I could walk in any direction and see something amazing or eat something delicious.”
“I hate fad diets.”
“Most women who work and have a career and a family sympathise with one another because they know just how difficult it is to try and manage it all and sometimes if the pressure's too great and you can't manage something has to give and it's either your career or your family.”
“I look at people like Helen Mirren, Emma Thompson, Goldie Hawn, they're the people I want to be.”
“I think the term feminist is scary for women, because it means that you're extreme in some way, and I'm not extreme in any way, although I do passionately believe that a woman's role within any organisation is to assist and help other women.”
“My grandmother had a motto that you should never look down on people unless you are helping them up, and I think that's a very spiritual way of living.”
“There's only two things that I really care about - apart from family - one is business and the other is women in business.”
“The brain aneurysm I had in 2006 put things into perspective. It made me understand what was really important - to enjoy life, take more risks and stop putting things off.”
“Deep in my soul, I'm secretly a redhead.”
“To any man currently thinking it's not safe to say anything to women these days, allow me to offer you a rule of thumb. If you're in any doubt about something you're going to say to a woman, just ask yourself if you'd say the same thing to a man.”