Chris Martin

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

Maybe it’s because I’m English, but in terms of how people perceive us I only pick up on the negative side of it.

The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen.

I do an hour’s yoga and go running every day. Then I see a picture of myself and I still look like a skinny, potbellied idiot – and I thought I had turned into this superhunk!

I know being on a major label is meant to be antiquated, but we’re fine with it.

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

It is always the start that requires the greatest effort.

Our modern industrialism, changed to motives of public service, will provide means to remove every injustice that gives soil for prejudice.

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.

Work is our sanity, our self-respect, our salvation. The day’s work is the center of everything.

Do not primarily train men to work. Train them to serve willingly and intelligently.

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

I have no Napoleonic dream. I’m just hard working and pragmatic.

The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people’s fantasies. People may not always think big themselves. but they can get very excited by those who do. That is why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest, the greatest and the most spectacular.

No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn’t.

The more predictable the business, the more valuable it is.

We wish all users of Ford cars to know what they are entitled to.

Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn’t sell much of anything.

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.

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.

For a long time now, I have believed that industry and agriculture are natural partners and that they should begin to recognize and practice their partnership. Each of them is suffering from ailments which the other can cure. Agriculture needs a wider andsteadier market; industrial workers need more steadier jobs. Can each be made to supply what the other needs? I think so. The link between is Chemistry. In the vicinity of Dearborn we are farming twenty thousand acres for everything from sunflowers to soy beans. We pass the crops through our laboratory to learn how they may be used in the manufacture of motor cars and, thus provide an industrial market for the farmers’ products.