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 Read Quote
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. Stuart Rose Read Quote
There is a responsibility on all companies to look at the quantum of pay and the relationship between the top and the bottom. Stuart Rose Read Quote
I am absolutely a free marketeer and I believe the creation of wealth is a good thing and anyone who doesn’t really needs to have their head examined – otherwise where are we going to get the schools, the roads, the universities, the third runway, dare I say it? Stuart Rose Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I was the chief executive once, I’ve been there. My recommendation to anybody is don’t go backwards. Stuart Rose Read Quote
I’ve been an employee all my life. Would I wish, if I could rewind it, to have gone down a different route? Possibly, but I’ve had a great time. Anyway I’m not ruling it out; I could still buy a business. Stuart Rose Read Quote
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 Read Quote
We face a dilemma because although everybody is better off than they’ve ever been at any time in our history, we’ve also got the biggest gap between the rich and the poor that we’ve ever had, and we’ve potentially got a planet which is going to go bust any day. Stuart Rose Read Quote
I actually think the whole concept of retirement is a bit stupid, so yes, I do want to do something else. There is this strange thing that just because chronologically on a Friday night you have reached a certain age… with all that experience, how can it be that on a Monday morning, you are useless? Stuart Rose Read Quote
