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

I think I pick more winners than losers.

If, like me, you suffer from lack of self-confidence you’ll know that the term is made up of two conflicting words, and that confidence isn’t easily found in the self.

Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.

It's the pursuit of love and happiness that is the driving force of the romantic novel.

You're nothing to me until you're everything.

I am not normally a betting person, but I say that putting your money on the American people is about as close to a sure bet as you are going to get.

If you do not follow the right path, you will be lost.

Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.

Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.

I am not your God. Or if I am, I'm no God you can seek out for deliverance or explanation. I'm the kind of God who would eat you without compunction if I were hungry.

Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him.