Chris Martin

What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It’s a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.

There comes a point where it doesn’t matter how many zeroes are at the end of your bank account.

Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here.

I don’t speak particularly well. That’s one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.

Some people misconstrue our band just to be a commercial venture.

We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.

You can’t do this! We have an arrangement! We have a contract!

Anything that is not right, whether it temporarily favors the employees or the employers, cannot last-because it is not right.

On Beverly Hills we paid too much. One hundred per cent, we did over-pay. We didn’t do our research properly.

If you need a machine and don’t buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don’t have it.

Did I have a problem with lying to get the job? None whatsoever.

I must have had a dozen jobs and I got fired from all of them.

I built a great company, one of the – some of the most iconic assets in the world, $10 billion of net worth, more than $10 billion of net worth, and frankly, I had a great time doing it.

Only a fool never changes his mind.

On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.

We were all young and we were all inventing our careers. I was very close to Jackson, just as I’d been very close to Laura Nyro. With each person I had a unique relationship.

Your business, and your brand, must first let people know what you care about, and that you care about them.

[In 1990 on the president of MCA calling and saying ‘We’re going to make you the biggest offer this company has ever made, and I’m going to send it to you by messenger right now.’] It’s 1990. Send me a fax.

About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.