Philip Green Quotes

United Kingdom, Businessman
March 15, 1952

Sir Philip Nigel Ross Green (born 15 March 1952) is 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 used to be part of the group.

Stand in my lobby at 5:30 P.M., and there is no one who gets out of the lift who is not on a gadget. No one is talking to each other. I get in the lift and say, 'Hello,' and everyone's head is down tapping on a screen.

Philip Green
I was never going to be a scholar.

Philip Green

I could spend my life having meetings, a meeting to have another meeting, a hundred meetings to have another thousand meetings. It's not what I'm about. I don't want to have to get in a queue; that's not how I like to live.

Philip Green
- Life
- Live
I think I pick more winners than losers.

Philip Green
Arcadia was a typical venture capital deal, but I'm the adventurer and the capitalist.

Philip Green
There is no reason why government should not be as efficient as any good business.

Philip Green
- Good
- Why
- Business
Nobody can be a clairvoyant.

Philip Green
People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?'

Philip Green
- People
- Great
- Experience

I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless.

Philip Green
- Brave
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?

Philip Green
- World
- Together
- Question