David Geffen

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn’t got money.

While several parties have expressed interest in buying the company, I’m not shopping it, I haven’t sold it and I’m not about to sell it.

I forgive you for all the times you’ve f**ked me in the past and for all the times you’re going to f**k me in the future.

In the field of art, to be able to have lunch with Kirk Varnedoe is thrilling. I met him at Si and Victoria Newhouse’s dinner one night. Barnett Newman’s widow was there. That’s the part of me that’s a fan. Like when I was a kid and went to the Brooklyn Paramount. Well, my interest has expanded, and it’s not just rock-and-roll.

Do any of us really have a clue? We don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow. Or what word will come up in a conversation that will change our lives. You can be in the shower and scrubbing under your arm and find a lump that wasn’t there yesterday. I’m doing things here and now. Life is evolving. Every day life evolves.

Happy is harder than money. Anyone who thinks money will make them happy, doesn’t have money.

Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

The worst things in history have happened when people stop thinking for themselves and listen to other people and, even worse, start following other people. That’s what gives rise to dictators.

Life is neither old or new, ancient or modern, but simply more or less vivid-any song or musical composition will live that expresses or reproduces this vividness of life.-From this you will see that I believe that music fills a great place. The teaching of it goes far to restore the balance and richness of life, and-I might add- the unit of life also.

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.

Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

You deserve to give yourself the same love that you give to everyone else.

If you don’t have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you’re looking back saying, I should’ve had a plan.

The more you know, the more you realise how much you don’t know — the less you know, the more you think you know.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.

When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that’d mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.