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.

We live in a world where there are a hell of a lot of new inputs that need to be factored in to your business. It used to be just about your employees and your customers. Now there are all the issues about global warming, about sustainability, about ethics and now about gender and the distribution of wealth.

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- World
- Wealth
- Hell
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
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.

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- Today
- Moving
- Leader
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.

Stuart Rose
- Jobs
- Company
- Prove