69 Quotes by Stuart Rose

I am the largest market shareholder of clothing in the U.K. 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.

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 U.K. to prove that was the case.

I would think that we're probably taking back some market share back off (key rival) Next (NXTNXT) as well,

I think the gear could stand scrutiny against any other designers we have seen so far this week.

Life moves on. It's a bit like having a row with your girlfriend; if you still love her you still love her,

Our job now is to get the conversion rate (from footfall to sales ratio) up. We have to ask, 'Are there enough things to excite you?' We didn't get it right last year; our research on the in-store environment was frankly a bit disappointing,

We have already received such positive feedback from customers we will be extending the range further this autumn.

We have been at pains to point out that we've got the critical three months to Christmas to go. If we get to January and we're on a similar sort of track, then we can start talking about a recovery.

There are a lot of very busy blokes about who wear a suit for work, who go through a lot of wear and tear and who'll want this because of convenience, The customer is time-compressed and, in middle America, also pocket-book compressed.