Take from the poor and give to the rich – and the land will become richer. Take from the rich, and give to the poor – and the land will become poorer. The poor have it in them to scrape the money away.
I have an agreement with Lilholt and Olsen that we always play a Dalton song when we’re out on a solo tour, as it costs 280 kroner in Koda tax. It’s not much, but for them it’s a lot.
Your most difficult opponent is not the one facing you. Human nature, on the other hand, is.
Football is a fairly simple sport. 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and in the end the Germans win!
If you can’t outplay them, you have to outfight them.
I like Danish humour – I just wish you had more of it.
We did not underestimate them. They were just so much better than we expected.
I’m called the poorest president, but I do not feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to try an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.
If you’re a giver, remember to learn your limits. Because the takers don’t have any.
Sometimes you need to let go of everything – cleanse yourself. If you’re unhappy with something… whatever it is that’s dragging you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free, your true creativity, your true self, comes out.
A man should only work 4 hours a day so he may have time to devote himself to the arts and sciences.
I believe that if you just get up and go, life will open up to you.
Today you can just show bare ass for ten seconds on TV, then you are world famous in Denmark. 25 years ago, it required much more starquality.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired at the age of eighteen.
Virenque is riding. He (Aldag, ed.) stands perfectly still. He stands still as a German tree in the Harz.
We are not all in the same boat. We are all in the same storm.
Do you ever miss yourself? The person you were before you had your first heartbreak or before you got betrayed by a person you trusted? I do.
It’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.
I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.
Trust me, setting things up right from the beginning will avoid a ton of tears and heartache.
The hardest thing about doing good business is avoiding doing the bad ones.
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.
If you don’t heal what hurt you, you’ll bleed on people who didn’t cut you.
Remember, when you point a finger at someone there are three more pointing back at you.
We know the reward is peace on earth, goodwill toward men, but we cannot win it without determination and concerted effort.