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" Arcadia was a typical venture capital deal, but I'm the adventurer and the capitalist. "
Venture Capital
Venture
Deal
" Good, bad or indifferent, if you are not investing in new technology, you are going to be left behind. "
Bad
Behind
Technology
" I am a positive thinker. You have to have this positive energy to get somewhere. "
Energy
I Am
Positive
" I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless. "
Reckless
Educated
View
" 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. "
Style
Money
Home
" I could spend my life having meetings, a meeting to have another meeting, a hundred meetings to have another thousand meetings. It's not what I'm about. I don't want to have to get in a queue; that's not how I like to live. "
Live
My Life
Meetings
" 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. "
Difficult
Back
Only
" I don't regret anything I haven't done. "
Regret
Anything
Done
" I don't think there's anyone who can be unaware of the relevance of Kate Moss, the effect that she's had on the fashion industry. "
Relevance
Moss
She
" If I say I'm going to do something, I do it. "
Going
Something
Say
" If you go 90 yards in a hundred-yard race, you come last. Usain Bolt slows down for the last half a yard, but for 99 yards, he is that far ahead that he can. In our business, you can't be far enough ahead. It is such a competitive marketplace. "
Business
You
Enough
" I have a very clear conscience. "
Clear Conscience
Clear
Conscience
" I hope and believe all the people that worked very closely with me at BHS for all those years, and some for the whole journey, will know it was never my intention for the business to have the ending it did. "
People
Business
Hope
" I'm in the retail business, not the circus business. "
Circus
Business
Retail
" I sometimes think less is more. If you cut yourself in too many places, it is hard to execute. "
Think
Sometimes
Yourself
" I think everybody, from every end of the market place, from young through to old, wants to be fashionable. Everybody. Women want to feel like they're wearing the right merchandise, regardless of age. They want to be trendy. "
Women
Age
Think
" I think I pick more winners than losers. "
Think
Losers
More
" I think I've got a good feel. A feel for... being able to walk with different people. Or for being able to look at people and think, 'Yeah, I might know what they want to wear.' "
Look
People
Think
" It is about attention to detail and then the minutest detail on top of that. I am an owner, and yet I'll argue about the sign on the wall. "
Attention
Detail
Wall
" It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family. "
Family
Happy
Life
" It's not my style to blame anybody else. "
Blame
Anybody
Else
" I used to leave my house at 6:30 in the morning, and I would visit 10 shops every Saturday, starting at the furthest shop I'd decided to go to that day, ending up in Oxford Street 12 hours later. "
Street
Saturday
Morning
" I was never going to be a scholar. "
Going
Never
Scholar
" I wasn't a good school pupil. I was interested in business. "
Good
School
Business
" Nobody can be a clairvoyant. "
Nobody
" On what possible basis would I want to stop someone from buying BHS if I had tried to save it? "
Someone
Stop
Want
" People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?' "
Go
Effort
Experience
" Stand in my lobby at 5:30 P.M., and there is no one who gets out of the lift who is not on a gadget. No one is talking to each other. I get in the lift and say, 'Hello,' and everyone's head is down tapping on a screen. "
Hello
Down
Lift
" There is no reason why government should not be as efficient as any good business. "
Government
Business
Reason
" They already know all about brands... but what 16- and 17-year-olds won't necessarily have is experience of the world of work. The more that businesses get involved with schools, the better, because businesses sometimes complain that students don't have what they require to succeed in work. "
World
Work
Succeed
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