Stuart Rose Quotes

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• Customers want good value, but they care more than ever how food and clothing products are made.

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  Care, Want, Made

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• If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don't actually quite know they want it. That's what innovation's about. With Plan A, we didn't wait for the consumers to tell us.

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  Leader, Waiting, Innovation

  "Sir Stuart Rose on the changing role of business leaders". www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2012.

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• If you are not online, people look at you askance. I think in three to four years' time people will look equally askance at you if you haven't got the ability for consumers to buy what they want, where they want and how they want.

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  Thinking, Years, People

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• Listen, it's not nice to have your mum kill herself, that is difficult. But at the end of the day, it happened a long time ago. My mother was, I hope, not the reason that I have been successful. It's not as simplistic as 'My mum killed herself; I've got to prove myself.' I was very lucky that my parents took an interest in me...

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  Mother, Nice, Successful

  "Marks & Spencer's Stuart Rose: 'I'm like a £3.49 chicken jalfrezi! It's got punch, it's got zest, and it's just fabulous to be with'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2009.

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• My four criteria: I don't want to work with people I don't like; I don't want to work in a business I either don't like or don't understand; I don't want to work for nothing unless I choose to, and I do a fair amount of that already; and I want to have some fun.

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  Fun, People, Four

  "Sir Stuart Rose: 'They say we can't afford to retire, and I don't want to'". Interview with Juliette Garside, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2012.

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• I think that business leaders today have to be more rounded than they used to be, they have to be completely multi-functional and fast-moving.

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  Moving, Thinking, Leader

  "Sir Stuart Rose on the changing role of business leaders" by Stuart Rose, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2012.

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• I want to please every woman, every time.

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  Want, Please

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• I am the largest market shareholder of clothing in the UK and I am not a destination shop for food. If the clothing market is affected - and it has been - and I hold my market share mathematically, then fine, I am doing no worse than the market is doing, which is exactly the case, but I'm losing revenue.

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  Losing, Share, Destination

  "Marks & Spencer's Stuart Rose: 'I'm like a £3.49 chicken jalfrezi! It's got punch, it's got zest, and it's just fabulous to be with'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2009.

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• I believe in a uniform for work, but why, because we're men, do we have to be ghettoised into grey suits?

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  Believe, Men, Uniforms

  "Marks & Spencer's Stuart Rose: 'I'm like a £3.49 chicken jalfrezi! It's got punch, it's got zest, and it's just fabulous to be with'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2009.

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• I've been an employee all my life. Would I wish, if I could rewind it, to have gone down a different route? Possibly, but I've had a great time. Anyway I'm not ruling it out; I could still buy a business.

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  Wish, Different, Gone

  "Sir Stuart Rose: 'They say we can't afford to retire, and I don't want to'". Interview with Juliette Garside, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2012.

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• Ultimately, growth is essential for increasing a company's value.

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  Growth, Essentials, Company

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• I have always been an advocate and was, in my last job at M&S, a supporter of the Al Gore dictum that a sustainable business can be a profitable business. We were the first sizeable company in the UK to prove that was the case.

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  Jobs, Als, Lasts

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• It's P for Progress not R for Recovery.

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  Recovery, Progress

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• Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it, provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.

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  Running, Hate, Successful

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• There's no abhorrence about wearing M&S. We just haven't been delighting the girls.

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  Girl, Abhorrence, Havens

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• We face a dilemma because although everybody is better off than they've ever been at any time in our history, we've also got the biggest gap between the rich and the poor that we've ever had, and we've potentially got a planet which is going to go bust any day.

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  Gaps, Faces, Rich

  "Sir Stuart Rose on the changing role of business leaders". www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2012.

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• Our world is moving at an ever-accelerating pace, and with the advent of social media, what happens in New York now can be reported across the globe 60 seconds later.

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  New York, Moving, Our World

  "Sir Stuart Rose on the changing role of business leaders". www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2012.

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• We believe responsible business can be profitable business

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  Business, Believe, Management

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• I am absolutely a free marketeer and I believe the creation of wealth is a good thing and anyone who doesn't really needs to have their head examined - otherwise where are we going to get the schools, the roads, the universities, the third runway, dare I say it?

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  Believe, School, Needs

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• We live in a world where there are a hell of a lot of new inputs that need to be factored in to your business. It used to be just about your employees and your customers. Now there are all the issues about global warming, about sustainability, about ethics and now about gender and the distribution of wealth.

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  Issues, Needs, World

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• I don't believe in retirement.

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  Retirement, Believe, Don't Believe

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• I actually think the whole concept of retirement is a bit stupid, so yes, I do want to do something else. There is this strange thing that just because chronologically on a Friday night you have reached a certain age... with all that experience, how can it be that on a Monday morning, you are useless?

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  Friday, Retirement, Monday

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• We've got a bit of growth a bit earlier than expected.

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  Growth, Expected, Bits

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• When I got married in my twenties, I had a happy marriage and happy kids but at some point in time I let it go off the rails I let it go off the rails.

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  Kids, Happy Kid, Let It Go

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• There is a responsibility on all companies to look at the quantum of pay and the relationship between the top and the bottom.

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  Responsibility, Looks, Pay

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