A biography for Peter Joneshasn’t been written yet.
“We're having to spend a lot of time teaching our entrepreneurs how to teach and, I tell you, it isn't easy and that's why we should have an immense amount of respect for our teachers.”
“If I'm filming 'Dragons' Den', we work flat out until 8pm, although I love seeing the weird, wonderful and plain delusional.”
“If someone comes onto 'Dragons' Den' and annoys me, I'm going to tell them exactly what I think.”
“I remember my first memory is sitting in my dad's chair in a small office and I used to imagine that I was picking up the phone and issuing commands. And I was only seven.”
“If you want to make your own decisions about where you work, what you do, what you earn and what you buy, then being able to make money is an important factor.”
“I'm not a guy who plays political games, and I believe absolutely in one method, which is directness.”
“Being an entrepreneur is probably the most lonely thing you can do.”
“When I was 12 I worked with someone - it was actually an English teacher at my school, John Woodward. He was the only teacher in the school to have a top-of-the-range Porsche and all the trappings of success, so it was very interesting for me to find out how he did it. He was probably the wealthiest English teacher in the community.”