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Fortune
Orianna Rosa Royle

Kurt Geiger’s CEO went from cleaning toilets to running a $432 million fashion brand—he says he got promoted by making his boss look brilliant

Photo of Neil Clifford (Credit: Courtesy of Kurt Geiger)

Despite a less-than-glamorous start to his career after failing all of his school exams—and his early jobs including cleaning toilets and delivering paraffin—Kurt Geiger CEO Neil Clifford always knew his career was destined for greatness. 

“I always had this sort of kryptonite glow in my stomach that I was going to make something of myself,” the boss of one of the world’s largest shoe retailers tells Fortune.

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