SHIRLEY CONRAN

Self-confidence is the most important thing, and this comes from identifying your goals, knowing your limits and roping in all the help you can get.

If you don't dare, you are doomed to dullness.

First things first, second things never.

With color, for the price of a pot of paint, people can express their own style and individuality. But, as with style, a gift for color has to be developed by experiment. If you don't dare, you are doomed to dullness.

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

A Superwoman isn't a woman who can do anything, but a woman who avoids doing too much.

Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour.

You have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

You're never too old to grow up.

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

First things first, second things never.

Self-confidence is the most important thing, and this comes from identifying your goals, knowing your limits and roping in all the help you can get.

I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.

You have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

With color, for the price of a pot of paint, people can express their own style and individuality. But, as with style, a gift for color has to be developed by experiment. If you don't dare, you are doomed to dullness.

A Superwoman isn't a woman who can do anything, but a woman who avoids doing too much.

If you don't dare, you are doomed to dullness.

Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour.

You're never too old to grow up.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.