Good, bad or indifferent, if you are not investing in new technology, you are going to be left behind.

I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

You've got to love what you do to really make things happen.

I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work.

Whenever I have faced a setback I have dusted myself down and got on with the rest of my life because I believed in myself.

People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?

I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless.

You've got to be a believer in what you do.

I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis's and Owen Owen, only for a short time, and I found department stores personally difficult.

I think we'll say flat is the new growth in the short term.

Imperfection makes perfect

We couldn't outspend the fossil fuel industry - they have more money than God.

You will not leave the theater with nothing to talk about. For me, comedy and tragedy when you get them both in one evening, that's the most satisfying.

Diogenes, when asked from what country he came, replied, "I am a citizen of the world."

Take me somewhere I can grow Give me something let me go Tell me something I don't know

Until the white man in America sits down and talks with The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, he won't even know what the race problem - what makes the race problem what it is.

I daydreamed for motivation. I didn't lie to myself and talk about my passions and how if I was passionate enough about something I could be successful at it.

The nations which have received and in any way dealt fairly and mercifully with the Jew have prospered, and the nations that have tortured and oppressed him have written out their own curse.

Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has had his chance already, and neglected it.

Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.