Quotes by Philip Green

About Philip Green:

Sir Philip Nigel Ross Green is a British businessman and the Chairman of the Arcadia Group, a retail giant that includes Topshop, Topman, Wallis, Evans, Burton, Miss Selfridge, Dorothy Perkins, Outfit and previously BHS.
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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?

Philip Green

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

Philip Green

I think I pick more winners than losers.

Philip Green

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 h...

Philip Green

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

Philip Green

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

Philip Green

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

Philip Green

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.

Philip Green

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

Philip Green

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.

Philip Green

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

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Author Bio

  • NamePhilip Green
  • DescriptionEnglish businessman
  • BornMarch 15, 1952
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionEntrepreneur