Basically we get confused a bit about what retail is. It is really just buying things, putting them on a floor and selling them.

Businesses are made by people. We've proven time and time again that you can have wonderful shop, and put a bloke in there who's no good, and he'll stuff it up. Put a good bloke in, and it just turns around like that .

Basically we get confused a bit about what retail is. It is really just buying things, putting them on a floor and selling them.

I went to university for a couple of years and I didn't enjoy university. The studying and the accountancy, economics, I just hated that stuff. Now the irony is here I am lawyer, accountant, I do it all day every day and sit at a desk. So I've never ended up where I wanted to be in many ways. I always wanted to be a farmer.

When people talk about successful retailers and those that are not so successful, the customer determines at the end of the day who is successful and for what reason.