Philip Green
Philip Green
Sir Philip Nigel Ross Greenis a British businessman, and the chairman of Arcadia Group, a retail company that includes Topshop, Topman, Wallis, Evans, Burton, Miss Selfridge, Dorothy Perkins, and Outfit. The BHS department store chain was formerly part of the group...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth15 March 1952
circus retail retail-business
I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.
self-esteem down-and setback
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.
business make-things-happen happens
You've got to love what you do to really make things happen.
life family quality
It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
coming confidence good knew match switched teams today worked
This is my first match with my new partner, and we worked good together. I think we just had a lot of confidence coming into the match. We knew this was a real big one. We switched up the teams today and it worked really good.
best bring data factories forced goods question
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?
businesses complain experience involved require students work
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.
bad good left technology
Good, bad or indifferent, if you are not investing in new technology, you are going to be left behind.
against country south
I have been in this country long enough to know of the many gripes South Africans have against my country,
best fact foot forward great means move supporting
The fact that we have been supporting them, means that we could take the great move to show on our own - I put my best foot forward and I have never been afraid,
thinking loser winner
I think I pick more winners than losers.
believe credible financial last performance represent results year
I believe our results for the last financial year represent a credible performance,
thinking growth term
I think we'll say flat is the new growth in the short term.