Quotes by Mike Ashley - Page 1

Corbyn is not only a liar but clueless.
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Clueless
Liar
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I like to get drunk, I'm a power drinker.
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Drunk
Drinker
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I do fly to work by helicopter. It's a reality.
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Helicopter
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I didn't know Alan Pardew before football at all.
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Alan
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I'm not this crazy capitalist everybody thinks I am.
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Capitalist
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You get to the top of one mountain and then you see another.
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Mountain
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Once you start to spiral a company down, you lose the momentum.
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Momentum
Spiral
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I take business decisions all day every day, from home, from the bath.
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All Day
Bath
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I would not get to know every single thing that happens in Sports Direct.
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Every Single Thing
Single Thing
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I was a little bit shocked at quite how football was more like the wild west.
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Football
Little Bit
Shocked
West
Wild West
Wild
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The over-riding reality is that I am just not wealthy enough to own Newcastle.
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Newcastle
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What person could keep 59 stores open - beside God? It's impossible, it can't be done.
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Beside
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We think the biggest and most important thing House of Fraser is missing is luxury brands.
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Brands
Luxury
Missing
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It is blatantly apparent that true entrepreneurs will never be accepted in the public arena.
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Accepted
Arena
Apparent
Entrepreneurs
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I'm not a clicks man, I wasn't born in the clicks era. I'm a bricks man, I believe in bricks.
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Born
Bricks
Clicks
Believe Man I Believe
Believe I Believe Man
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I wanted to help Newcastle, I wanted to make it better. I do not seem to have had that effect.
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Newcastle
Effect
Seem
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On a scale out of five, with one being very bad and five being very good, House of Fraser is a one.
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Scale
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Sports Direct should come with a government health warning - this stock is not for the fainthearted.
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Warning
Stock
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It is very boring and lonely in Shirebrook. You know what we do after work? We go to the pub after work.
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Lonely
Pub
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I am wedded to Newcastle like Sports Direct. They've got me and I've got them. That's just the way it is.
Mike Ashley /
Newcastle
Sports I Am Me
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Sports Direct is on course to become the 'Selfridges of sport' by migrating to a new generation of stores.
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New Generation
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It's not my fault the high street is dying... It's very very simple, the Internet is killing the high street.
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Dying
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I don't get paid a salary, but I do like to go by private plane because it saves a lot of time and is very efficient.
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Efficient
Paid
Salary
Time Go Because
Plane
Private
Saves
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I periodically lose my phone, damage my phone, have my phone stolen - what ever happens to mobile phones happens to me.
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Damage
Mobile
Mobile Phones
Phones
Stolen
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I'm not sitting in my office stroking a white cat... I find it very frustrating: what benefit have I got of closing stores?
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Cat
Closing
Frustrating
Stores
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I accept House of Fraser cannot have 500,000 square feet in Birmingham. Honestly, you would need an Uber to take you round. It's ridiculous.
Mike Ashley /
Birmingham
Uber
Round
Square
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I will go to the ends of the earth to save as many Debenhams stores and jobs as I can, similar to the promise I made with regards to House of Fraser.
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Promise
Stores
Regards
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The school I went to was only famous for one thing... Peter Osgood went to that particular school. That's probably my earliest memory of the importance of football.
Mike Ashley /
Peter
Earliest
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I am hopeful for the Newcastle fans, for the club, for everybody that I will be able to step aside and we will be able to get an owner in that will please everybody.
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Hopeful
Newcastle
Aside
Owner
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Criticism is a funny thing, because I think if you want to be something, create something or make a difference in any walk of life you have to be hugely self-critical.
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Criticism
Funny Thing
Hugely
Make A Difference
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Do I regret getting into football? The answer is yes. I have had tonnes of fun in it but I haven't been able to make the difference I wanted to like I have at Sports Direct.
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Regret
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The media circus surrounding Sports Direct... only proves that whatever progress Sports Direct makes, it will always be subject to disproportionate scrutiny and misrepresentation.
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Sports
Circus
Direct
Media
Scrutiny
Disproportionate
Proves
Subject
Surrounding
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Alan Shearer came in at a time when he was one of the only people on this planet who could have kept Newcastle up and he did a fantastic job in everything else but the odd result not going his way.
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Newcastle
Odd
Time People Way
Alan
Everything Else
His Way
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Despite significant challenges within the retail sector in the UK and beyond, which have resulted in many retailers failing, Sports Direct has continued to perform well and exceed market expectations.
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Despite
Exceed
Failing
Resulted
Sector
Uk
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It's one of the amazing things about owning a football club, the way you get caught up. It's like someone has put something in your coffee. You look around, you want to lift the place, hit the ground running.
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Amazing Things
Coffee
Lift
Owning
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If you're trying to portray that I take massive business decisions in pubs and bars, then that is total crap. It is not the norm, otherwise I'd have to live in a pub because I take business decisions all day, every day.
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Bars
Norm
Pubs
All Day
Business Day Every Day
Portray
Pub
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What we would like to do is introduce a 'concierge click and collect' at House of Fraser. When you go online and say you want to collect goods in-store, you should be able to book a time, book a changing room and book a stylist.
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Goods
Click
Introduce
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It is true that I have conducted and do conduct business discussions in an informal environment form time to time. However I don't just turn up to a venue with someone and negotiate a binding agreement over few hours over drinks.
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Binding
Discussions
Drinks
Informal
Negotiate
Venue
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Kevin Keegan is an outstanding individual and also did his best. It wasn't always easy for Kevin at the football club. We didn't have the structure around that we should have had to support him. I will take responsibility for that.
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Outstanding
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People will say 'how can you have a plane when your workers are on minimum wage?' I said 'but I don't set the minimum wage.' If the minimum wage would be the living wage, then the Government who set the rules should set it at the living wage. That's how I look at it.
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Living Wage
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Workers
Rules
Plane
Wage
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