There are too many factors you have to take into account that you have no control over. The most important factor you can keep in your own hands is yourself. I always placed the greatest emphasis on that.
When I die, I want to go to sleep peacefully like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror, like the passengers in his car.
A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord.
Picking your nose does not make you a bad person. It is what you do afterward that defines you.
One man can be crucial to a team, but one man cannot make a whole team.
It was nice you came, but it’s even nicer that you go
I have no vices only desires.
Why do you see the splinter in your brother’s eye but don’t notice the beam in your own eye?
We in FCK are always accused of being so damn arrogant, but the fact is that we are not nearly as arrogant as anyone else would have been in our shoes
I don’t dress up for boys. I dress up to stare at my reflection as I walk by store windows.
I may offend some people, but about 80% of people are idiots. At least when it comes to money.
When you get as old as I am and no longer have a husband or dog, and the children have long since left home, you can sit and get a little wiser by thinking. Then it’s time to edit your memories and start looking at your life again. First come the regrets, then come the wrongs you’ve done, mistakes you’ve made – and all the things you can sit and brood over if you’re already in a bad mood. But you can also understand people and contexts in a new way.
Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.
I think now it’s a bit of a shame the real blondes are on the verge of extinction.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you like what you do, you will succeed.
All I got from van Looy and his cronies was ridicule, not one piece of help or advice. They were very unfair, I was still just a naive young boy really. With Peugeot, and es[Simpson]pecially with Tom [Simpson], it was completely different.