Chris Martin

Although it’s painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively – some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don’t agree with, you don’t work on.

I don’t drink, I don’t take drugs, I don’t smoke.

Music is split up now into little pockets.

I personally really like getting a proper album with artwork and everything.

I can’t believe we’ve got away with becoming this huge band. And we still haven’t done anything I think is that good yet.

We aren’t cool and never will be.

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman – not the attitude of the prospect.

No human wisdom or knowledge could ever be sufficient [for] the duty of superintending the industry of private people … towards the employment most suitable to the interest of the society.

The Model T blazed the way for the motor industry and started the movement for good roads everywhere. It is still the pioneer car in many parts of the world which are just beginning to be motorized.

It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially – like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.

I think everybody thought I was crazy that I quit my job and started a management company in which I was managing one client – Laura Nyro.

The headline is the ‘ticket on the meat.’ Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising.

Cutting wages is not the way to recovery. Raise wages and improve the product.

Good copy can’t be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You’ve got to believe in the product.

Good publicity is preferable to bad, but from a bottom-line perspective, bad publicity is sometimes better than no publicity at all. Controversy, in short, sells.

Burdening people with debt is an old deal not a new deal.

Chris and I came from nothing. We’re selfmade. We started with nothing, so we have nothing to lose. And we have everything to gain.

Exchange ideas frequently.

Profits are not financial-they’re social. Everybody profits from industry. Politicians don’t understand profits because they can pay bills out of taxation.

Nothing can be made except by makers, nothing can be managed except by managers. Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything.

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.