Quotes by Lloyd Dorfman

About Lloyd Dorfman:

Lloyd Marshall Dorfman is a British entrepreneur and philanthropist. He founded the business that became the Travelex Group, today the world's largest non-bank foreign exchange business. He was appointed CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list for services to business and charity.
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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.

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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 curr...

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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 ...

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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.

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The key thing for me is to secure medium-term funding for the Roundhouse studios. It costs around £2m a year to run, but we want to grow it, and of course that will cost more.

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I believe the combination of Travelex and Apax will represent a powerful force.

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My mind tends to operate a bit like a radar. I don't find it hard to switch off.

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

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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 comm...

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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.

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I'm a really boring bloke, actually. My business is my hobby.

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India offers exciting business opportunities owing to the growth in corporate travel and a significant middle-class population waiting to explore the world. To begin with, Travelex is setting up eight city centre branches in metros and other major ci...

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

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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.

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For centuries, the arts and philanthropists have worked well together: look at the Tate family and the Courtaulds. If you've been fortunate enough to have some success in business, I think it's important to put something back.

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

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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.

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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.

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Money is a very fundamental ingredient in anyone starting up a new business.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameLloyd Dorfman
  • DescriptionBritish entrepreneur and philanthropist
  • BornAugust 25, 1952
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • AwardsOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire