A biography for Mike Ashleyhasn’t been written yet.
“It is blatantly apparent that true entrepreneurs will never be accepted in the public arena.”
“Corbyn is not only a liar but clueless.”
“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.”
“It's not my fault the high street is dying... It's very very simple, the Internet is killing the high street.”
“I'm not a clicks man, I wasn't born in the clicks era. I'm a bricks man, I believe in bricks.”
“It is very boring and lonely in Shirebrook. You know what we do after work? We go to the pub after work.”
“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.”
“I'm not Father Christmas, I'm actually a very fair guy.”
“Sports Direct is on course to become the 'Selfridges of sport' by migrating to a new generation of stores.”
“I wanted to help Newcastle, I wanted to make it better. I do not seem to have had that effect.”
“We think the biggest and most important thing House of Fraser is missing is luxury brands.”
“In Harrods you get some exceptional services.”
“Honestly, I am fat enough. I don't need any more food.”
“I don't care what people say, it's very difficult to keep a player when they want to go. The age of slavery is dead.”
“I periodically lose my phone, damage my phone, have my phone stolen - what ever happens to mobile phones happens to me.”
“Once you start to spiral a company down, you lose the momentum.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I'm not sitting in my office stroking a white cat... I find it very frustrating: what benefit have I got of closing stores?”
“I do fly to work by helicopter. It's a reality.”