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.

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.

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.

I think I pick more winners than losers.

Jesus came to give us life to the very edges of life.

Being a good communicator Patch, begins with listening, and listening to yourself first.

Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.

But I want to start a family one day, and be involved in more charities, helping children.

You can't run a company simply by the numbers. So if you're going to bet on someone, you bet on someone you want to be in business with for a long time.

Whole phases of comedy have become empty; the comic rejoinder has become every man's tool.

If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction.

We're all self-made men, but not very many of us have stayed on the job.

You aren't afraid of what you think you're afraid of - you're afraid of what you think.