Love, Pain & Money: The Making of a Billionaire

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Mr Caudwell adds: "Come March, two years after the arrival of our first child together, William John, he and Leonardo will have a baby sister. Walter Caudwell,’ the policeman asked as I craned forward, mouth open wondering what on earth the police wanted with my dad. That's the enduring value of this book that sets it apart from other tales of voyage, for Caldwell does not merely arrive in the end, but learns from the people he meets along the way.

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The tot - named William John - is now settling into life at one of the family's homes in Monaco before they move back to Broughton Hall, near Eccleshall, when restrictions allow. He was then rushed to a hospital, where staff did not speak any English, and received treatment for a punctured lung, broken collarbone, shattered shoulder blade and six broken ribs. One thing that really impressed me about this book is the reminder that I can do anything I set my mind to.

The Phones 4u founder said he was making his way back down a mountain, rounded the first bend when the tyre exploded. When I got this parcel, I just rattled it, which is a game we always play just to see what was in it and heard something like a stick or something rattling around.

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I didn't know there was going to be a worldwide financial crisis but I knew there was going to be a recession. But when more men entered the room, one with a screwdriver and one with a crowbar, my blood turned to ice. Although the phone was heavy and cumbersome, John saw the potential of cellular technology and set up his own retail business, starting off with 26 phones which took him almost a year to sell.

In October 2011, he made a "significant" six-figure donation to Middleport Pottery (one of the last working Victorian pot banks in Britain) in Stoke-on-Trent, through the Prince's Regeneration Trust. The women would even check out each other’s washing on the lines, vying to see whose hanging techniques were the best and whose laundry was the most spotless. Caudwell’s Audley Square House development, designed by New York-based Robert Stern Architects, is a nine-story block of 30 luxury apartments.