Ben Elliot
Ben Elliot
Benjamin William "Ben" Elliotis an English businessman, philanthropist, and nephew of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth11 August 1975
country spent west
In my heart and soul, I am a West Country man, and ideally, my weekends are spent there.
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My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had done something to deserve it. So, my childhood was spent working on farms or local shops or, when I got older, in banks.
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My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food was pretty low on the list.
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What goes around comes around in business, and it's better to help people out rather than bill them every time you speak to them.
people
If people don't feel they've got your attention, you're not going to succeed.
creature favour tend
I'm a creature of habit and tend to favour small, traditional English businesses.
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I definitely like sorting stuff out, and I have the enthusiasm to try and help.
developing relationships work
A lot of my work is about developing relationships with corporate partners such as Jaguar and Diageo.
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There are a lot of laws from Europe about employing people which are absolute nonsense.
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Since I travel to the four corners of this planet for work, I don't need sun holidays or that kind of thing.
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I think people might say I'm a bit of a sucker for punishment.
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I mainly read histories and biographies, but I'm also a big fan of Graham Swift and Thomas Hardy.
morning pilates stay
For me, a stay at the Uma Paro with Pilates every morning is a perfect escape.
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Art is the ultimate luxury good, but one that can make you think, give a you a blast of beauty and enhance your life. Even if the work's made of plasticine.