John Lidstone

  • If it’s just unbridled lust, then go away for a dirty weekend and get it out of your system

    The Vicar of Grantchester

  • The most diabolical game ever devised by man!

    Harold Macmillan speaking to John about Winston Churchill's aversion to golf

  • You will drive with me to the station, it will save me having to pay your expenses.

    Paul Getty

  • I only wish John Lidstone's book had been available to me many years ago. It would have saved me the myriad boobs I have made over the years.

    John Harvey-Jones

  • You don't learn to sail on a smooth sea. You don't learn to ride on a lazy horse. You don't learn to sell with a popular product.

    Kemmons Wilson (Founder of Holiday Inns)

  • Thank God you never became an MP!

    Primrose Lidstone

John Lidstone has enjoyed a varied and eventful life in business and public service. Internationally recognised as a broadcaster, public speaker and author of 16 best-selling books on business, his distinguished career has taken him across the world and into the paths of an intriguing array of people: From five Prime Ministers to Hugh Hefner, Paul Getty and Dirk Bogarde; the Archbishop of Canterbury to Frankie Howerd.  To name but a few…

His published memoirs How Did You Know All These People? has been inspired by the many requests from friends, audiences and business people to record some of the highlights of his long and fascinating life.

John taught English at Repton before going into industry and helping to found one of the most successful marketing consultancy and training companies in Europe.  He has twice stood for Parliamentary candidacy; advised business leaders and politicians; and given evidence to Select Committees. In his long and varied career he has met and worked with a huge number of the great and the good (not to mention the the not-so-good!), and his memoirs give a glimpse into their lives as well as his own.  

Expert, confident and eloquent, occasionally outspoken, but always charming, John takes us through some of the key events and anecdotes of his life and some of the many colourful characters with whom he has crossed paths.  

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How Did You Knowall these people?

JOHN LIDSTONE’S FASCINATING MEMOIR OF HIS EVENTFUL LIFE IN BUSINESS & PUBLIC SERVICE - BUY HERE

John Lidstone

Author, Broadcaster, Public Speaker, Businessman

It is with great regret that we announce that John Lidstone sadly passed away  on 5 April 2016.  
The Telegraph announcement>>

He will be greatly missed by his family and all who knew him.  

This website remains for the moment as a source of information about his fascinating life and his Memoirs.