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.

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.

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- People
- Hate
- Running
It's P for Progress not R for Recovery.

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- Progress
- Recovery

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.

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

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We believe responsible business can be profitable business

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I'd go mad if I didn't have things to make me laugh.

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- Mad
- Laughing
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.

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- Jobs
- Company
- Prove