I think I pick more winners than losers.

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 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.

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

Once you become delivered, you have to find your calling and how to discover God’s purpose for your life

There is nothing harder to explain than humor.

It is values that tell you what your pattern and values must be on daily bases.

if God starts it as alfa then he will end it as omega

You can't dictate if a character's going to come off as sympathetic to an audience. I just tried to play it as honest as possible.

Not unlike gender reassignment surgery, someone determines that they are of a different race on the inside and they wish to surgically correct that.

The problem with touring isn't the traveling and the shows, it's the vegetal state you get into.

You will learn and grow according to the nature and consequences of your actions.