Simon Cowell quotes

My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.

My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.

My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.

The secret of my success is that I make other people money. And, never ever, ever, ever be ashamed about trying to earn as much as possible for yourself, if the person you're working with is also making money. That's life!

My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.

I couldn't think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I've seen it destroy people.

People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.

For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It's amazing. And it's free. I love it. It's absolutely brilliant.

My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.

When someone asks, 'Does success make you into a monster?' I always say, 'No, it enables you to be a monster.'

Money brings you security and choice. You can make decisions in a different way if you have a lot of money. But when you have nothing, you have a naivety, and a more fearless attitude because you have nothing to lose.

I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like guitar lessons and I got quite bored. My teacher was obviously bored giving me lessons, and one day I offered him a liquorice toffee, but he didn't answer. So I threw it at him, it hit him in the face, and he sort of beat me up.

For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It's amazing. And it's free. I love it. It's absolutely brilliant.

I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here.

The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.

You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it.

I got good advice once. Someone said to me: 'Live in your money rather than look at it.'

The secret of my success is that I make other people money. And, never ever, ever, ever be ashamed about trying to earn as much as possible for yourself, if the person you're working with is also making money. That's life!

I am quite miserable because I'm never satisfied with what I've got. You're always looking for that next high, and that is what I would define as happiness.