In the same way I am addicted to puddings - the sweeter the better - I have become addicted to the daily routines my Pilates and Gyrotonic guru, Nada, puts me through.
The way I choose to live my own life rates time and space as real luxuries.
'Concierge' comes from the Latin for 'slave.'
Fastidious attention to detail makes the difference between an OK service and first class service.
I'm not going to complain to New Yorkers about working too hard.
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.
It's not marriage that I crave. Many of my friends who have married are pretty miserable. Within a year and a half, most of them are either unhappy or divorced.
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.
Since childhood, I have been a cricket fanatic.
I knew Quintessentially was a success when my father, who does a lot of business in Beirut, introduced himself to somebody and they said, 'Oh, do you know Ben Elliot? I'd really like to meet him.' I remember him ringing me up, really annoyed.
I definitely like sorting stuff out, and I have the enthusiasm to try and help.
There are a lot of laws from Europe about employing people which are absolute nonsense.
I don't believe that saying things because you feel they are what people want to hear is the right way to be in any part of your life.
I think people might say I'm a bit of a sucker for punishment.
I have to be passionate about everything I do.
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.
I eat out three times a day most days of the year. This is no big deal to most New Yorkers, and it is not something I am necessarily proud of - it's simply the nature of my itinerant life.
I have an issue with others ordering for me, and I spend far too long haranguing people that my choices are the best. I apologize for the amount of conversations I have ruined with this attitude.
Buenos Aires is easily one of the most stylish cities in the world with its eclectic collection of neighborhoods, each with its own unique charm.
A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish.
