I Will Know Within Five Minutes of a Job Interview Whether Somebody's Right. If They're Not I Tell Them and Don't Waste Time ; He's Known for His Sharp Tongue On Dragon's Den, and Peter Jones Is Equally Incisive About People Who Work for Him

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How does a multimillionaire workaholic kill time waiting for a journalist to turn up at his Mayfair office? By barking orders at his 200 staff? Catching up on important emails? Or reading the FT?

Not Peter Jones, who runs the mobile phones and media empire he built from scratch ten years ago.'I was sitting in my Bentley playing the new X-Box 360 tennis game with my driver Richard,' he says.'I was Roger Federer and he was Anna Kournikova.' Tennis is important to Jones, who launched his business career at the age of 12 by qualifying as a coach and charging schoolmates for lessons.

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I Will Know Within Five Minutes of a Job Interview Whether Somebody's Right. If They're Not I Tell Them and Don't Waste Time ; He's Known for His Sharp Tongue On Dragon's Den, and Peter Jones Is Equally Incisive About People Who Work for Him

Today, his businesses span mobile phones, publishing, television, venture capital and commercial property.

Jones is a familiar face to millions as one of the five fearsome multimillionaire panellists on BBC2's The Dragons' Den. The five are asked by a sucession of hopeful entrepreneurs to invest in their (sometimes hopeless) schemes, and Jones has built up a reputation on the show for not suffering fools gladly.

This obviously comes from his own personal drive. He gets up most days at 5am and is rarely in bed before ...

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