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1. "We've got a bit of growth a bit earlier than expected." ~ Stuart Rose

2. "As retail goes through a fundamental shift into the digital world, I believe Ocado's model and the high standards of customer service it provides will see it emerge as a powerful online player." ~ Stuart Rose

3. "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?" ~ Stuart Rose

4. "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." ~ Stuart Rose

5. "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." ~ Stuart Rose

6. "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." ~ Stuart Rose

7. "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." ~ Stuart Rose

8. "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." ~ Stuart Rose

9. "Customers want good value, but they care more than ever how food and clothing products are made." ~ Stuart Rose

10. "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." ~ Stuart Rose

11. "I was the chief executive once, I've been there. My recommendation to anybody is don't go backwards." ~ Stuart Rose

12. "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." ~ Stuart Rose

13. "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." ~ Stuart Rose

14. "I believe in a uniform for work, but why, because we're men, do we have to be ghettoised into grey suits?" ~ Stuart Rose

15. "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." ~ Stuart Rose

16. "I want to please every woman, every time." ~ Stuart Rose

17. "I'd go mad if I didn't have things to make me laugh." ~ Stuart Rose

18. "There is a responsibility on all companies to look at the quantum of pay and the relationship between the top and the bottom." ~ Stuart Rose

19. "Was I the best husband? No. And I regret it." ~ Stuart Rose

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