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

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.

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.

I think I pick more winners than losers.

When you are extravagant, you can result yourself facing alot of debt and not adjust to the pursuit of happiness.

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned.

The difference between me and them is that I'll look at Jesse Jackson and I'll see four Jesse Jacksons, and they'll just see one, the clown ambulance chaser.

I live in New York right now but I'm originally from my daddy's nuts. We all are. Think about, we the lucky ones - we made it. You all are winners. That's the first race you ever won.

A school is not a factory. Its raison d'être is to provide opportunity for experience.

The success I've achieved comes to me from God

... uncritical love is the only real treasure.

I'm hearing echoes of Bill Clinton, circa 1996, in President Obama's reelection rhetoric.

Guide dogs for the blind. It's cruel really, isn't it? Getting a dog to lead a man round all day. Not fair on either of them.

The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence.