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" Arcadia was a typical venture capital deal, but I'm the adventurer and the capitalist. "

Venture Capital

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

" I am a positive thinker. You have to have this positive energy to get somewhere. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 don't regret anything I haven't 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. "

" If I say I'm going to do something, I do it. "

" 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. "

" I have a very 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. "

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

" I sometimes think less is more. If you cut yourself in too many places, it is hard to execute. "

" 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. "

" I think I pick more winners than losers. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" It's not my style to 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. "

" I was never going to be a scholar. "

" I wasn't a good school pupil. I was interested in business. "

" Nobody can be a clairvoyant. "

" On what possible basis would I want to stop someone from buying BHS if I had tried to save it? "

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

" 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. "

" There is no reason why government should not be as efficient as any good business. "

" 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. "

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