Philip Green Quotes

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Philip Green

Profession : Businessman

Birth : March 15, 1952

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

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

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I am a positive thinker. You have to have this positive energy to get somewhere.

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It's not my style to blame anybody else.

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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.

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I have a very clear conscience.

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When I am driving my car down the street, I try not to go down the potholes.

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

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If I say I'm going to do something, I do it.

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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.

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

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I think I pick more winners than losers.

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I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.

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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.

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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?

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

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You're going to find England, unfortunately, is a place where you get a lot of jealous, envious, you know, negative people. That's how it is.

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I hope and believe all the people that worked very closely with me at BHS for all those years, and some for the whole journey, will know it was never my intention for the business to have the ending it did.

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There is no reason why government should not be as efficient as any good business.

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I wasn't a good school pupil. I was interested in business.

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