I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business – just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I’m an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you’re being compromised.

Some sarcasm is best told simply.

Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

I don’t really have any gimmicks. I don’t actually do anything that’s strange. I don’t even wear weird things.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry – a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely – to push in a coherent direction.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

It’s safe to say headphones is a good business.

I have finally decided to write my book on the spiritual life. I mean to put down as simply as possible the sort of ascetical or mystical teaching that I have been living and preaching so long. I call it ‚Le Milieu Divin,‘ but I am being careful to include nothing esoteric and the minimum of explicit philosophy.

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‚Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.‘ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

I’ve been asking myself: ‚Why put together these things – CDs, albums?‘ The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it’s artistically viable. It’s not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it’s not obvious or even conscious on the artists‘ part.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.

There’s been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I’ve always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Here in England, everyone’s a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

I’ve been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it’d be awesome to work with him. He’s really kind, and he’s been really encouraging when we’ve met.

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Don’t you love it that Prince doesn’t use Twitter? Don’t you think he’s somewhere on a unicorn?

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we’ve been trying to generate material.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

Partnering with Atlantic Records creates the opportunity to take what we’re doing to the next level, without compromising.

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics – greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Every artist wants something different out the game.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you’re in a business with all men.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

I can’t deny that label-support gave me a leg up – though not every successful artist needs it.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

I’m the king of the anthems.

Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn’t see a space in which we could get anything together.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

Any negotiated, peaceful solution to the problems between the United States and peoples, or any people of Latin America, which does not imply force or the use of force, must be addressed in accordance with international principles and norms.

The arts don’t exist in isolation.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

For the first time we’re allowing developers who don’t work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That’s a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.