Stuart Rose Quotes

United Kingdom, Politician
March 17, 1949

Stuart Alan Ransom Rose, Baron Rose of Monewden is an English businessman and life peer, who was the executive chairman of Marks & Spencer until 2010, remaining as chairman until early 2011. He was knighted in 2008 for his services to the retail industry and created a Conservative life peer on 17 September 2014, taking the title Baron Rose of Monewden, of Monewden in the County of Suffolk.

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
- Looks
- Ability
- Consumers
Ultimately, growth is essential for increasing a company's value.

Stuart Rose

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
- World
- Believe
- Powerful
I don't believe in retirement.

Stuart Rose
- Believe
- Retirement
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 UK to prove that was the case.

Stuart Rose
- Jobs
- Company
- Prove
I'd go mad if I didn't have things to make me laugh.

Stuart Rose
- Mad
- Laughing
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
- Today
- Moving
- Leader