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

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.

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.

I think I pick more winners than losers.

God works through people by stirring their hearts and sometimes people never know how they are helping others.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

They believe the bible is the exact word of God - Then they change the bible! Pretty presumptuous, hu huh? "I think what God meant to say..."

It's not that I don't enjoy other people, but what I find with writers is this back and forth. And also, there's no need to talk about work.

The people who don’t give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance rather than scarcity.

Leadership responsibility: If you own a biz, you're the head of the org. Good or bad, your company will LOOK and ACT like you do.

I am not going to respect... gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them.

I don't know if human activity is the only cause, but mostly, in great part, it is man who has slapped nature in the face, we have in a sense taken over nature.

I am disappointed by this controversy surrounding A Million Little Pieces because I rely on the publishers to define the category that a book falls within and also the authenticity of the work.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.