Philip Green quotes:

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

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'm in the retail business, not the circus 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.

New West End Company ensures that there is a body that can put significant investment into the West End, targeted directly to the needs of the area and particularly the customers. Great progress is being made to improve Oxford Street and make it a great destination.

You are forced to have the best data capture, the best information, when you have goods in hundreds of factories around the world, and the question is: 'Where is everything?' And how do you bring it all together?

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 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.

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

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

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

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

I think I pick more winners than losers.

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

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.

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