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
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.
thinking loser winner
I think I pick more winners than losers.
oxford progress needs
New West End Company ensures that there is a body that can put significant investment into the West End, targeted directly to the needs of the area and particularly the customers. Great progress is being made to improve Oxford Street and make it a great destination.
self-esteem believer
You've got to be a believer in what you do.
thinking growth term
I think we'll say flat is the new growth in the short term.
stores found chains
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.
intelligent views brave
I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless.
business commitment home
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.
shopping people effort
People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?
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.