Philip Green Quotes

It is about attention to detail and then the minutest detail on top of that. I am an owner, and yet I'll argue about the sign on the wall.

Philip Green

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• All men would be tyrants if they could.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Men
  • Would
  • Tyrants

• I'm a big believer if you want to change people's minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you've got to first get their attention.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Change
  • Attention

• Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.

  

  Lactantius
  • Truth
  • Attention
  • Authority

• I hate these platforms that are all over the place today; they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Today

• A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance.

  

  Dan Flavin
  • Light
  • Wall
  • Edge

• In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Thinking
  • Attention
  • Years

• Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • You
  • Wall

• Any character that can't be kept straight, to me, isn't a character who should be in the book – you know, anyone not vivid enough to have a claim on my attention.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Character
  • Book
  • Me

• I like to come into my workspace and feel it's a living environment and not frozen, which is why I often change or add to the pictures on the wall.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Why
  • Change
  • Environment

• I'm like this wiry freak they pulled out of a bar two months ago and said, 'Let's throw it on the wall and see if it sticks.'

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Like
  • Wall
  • Said

• I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Why
  • Bad

• Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Ferrari or Lamborghini. Never fancied one of those – too flash for me. I don't really like seeking too much attention.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Attention
  • Never
  • Flash

• I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Think
  • Attention

• A character on stage who can present no convincing argument or information as to his past experience, his present behaviour or his aspirations, nor give a comprehensive analysis of his motives, is as legitimate and as worthy of attention as one who, alarmingly, can do all these things.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Past

• In a way, 'WALL-E' had some of the same disturbing elements that 'Up' does.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Up
  • Way
  • Wall

• I believe with a lot of support shows, people are very much there to see the headliner. You don't necessarily have their full attention, and some of what we do requires a lot of silence.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Believe
  • Support

• I like being the center of attention. I want to be in the limelight, basically.

  

  Nash Grier
  • Want
  • Attention
  • Like

• I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.

  

  Ed Emberley
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Know

• As I was writing, I realised I wasn't sufficiently extrovert to gather enough interesting souls with tall tales around me. I was no Louis Theroux. But neither was I interested in exploring my inner life in public, in the manner of a Jonathan Raban.

  

  Clive Sinclair
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Interesting

• The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You can talk about 'social justice' all you want. But what death taxes boil down to is letting politicians take money from widows and orphans to pay for goodies that they will hand out to others, in order to buy votes to get re-elected. That is not social justice or any other kind of justice.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Kind
  • Justice
  • Liberty

• We have seven pillars of development. India has a cutting edge information technology industry. We are setting up a technology park. We would like to see technology penetration iin education. Besides, we would like to see cooperation in industries like fashion, filmmaking, ship-building, education, health and energy.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Education

• I could live a week on one good compliment.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Good
  • Live
  • Week

• It is about attention to detail and then the minutest detail on top of that. I am an owner, and yet I'll argue about the sign on the wall.

  

  Philip Green
  • Attention
  • Wall