1- “I love producing shows. And so when you’re on a show where other people are making decisions you don’t necessarily agree with it, after a while you start to feel like a passenger.” -Simon Cowell
2- “What I would argue in my defence is that shows like ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ and ‘The X Factor’ have actually got people more interested in music again and are sending more people into record stores.” -Simon Cowell
3- “Every time I sat in a chemistry lesson, I thought, ‘What am I doing this for? I don’t ever want to be in a job that involves a Bunsen burner.’” -Simon Cowell
4- “I think if you’re an unhappy person, you’re always going to be an unhappy person. You’re probably going to be less unhappy if your business is doing well, if I’m being honest.” -Simon Cowell
5- “I think that by ignoring the show you’re ignoring the audience who put you there.” -Simon Cowell
6- “It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns.” -Simon Cowell
7- “When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued. There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If someone broke into my house or my mum’s house, I worry that the burglar has more rights than me.” -Simon Cowell
7- “When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued. There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If someone broke into my house or my mum’s house, I worry that the burglar has more rights than me.” -Simon Cowell
8- “Women say hello and then put their hands down my trousers. I thought it was my hand they were supposed to shake.” -Simon Cowell
10- “I was living life like in one of those Disney movies, where I genuinely believed nobody was ever going to die.” -Simon Cowell
11- “What luxury would I take to a desert island? A mirror. It’s true. I’d miss me.” -Simon Cowell
12- “I’ve learned to deal with stress much better now, things don’t bother me in the way that they once used to.” -Simon Cowell
13- “I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.” -Simon Cowell
14- “I’d say the most dangerous thing I’ve ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand.” -Simon Cowell
15- “I could just sit back and get someone to spin my achievements, I suppose, but when I see others do it, I always think, ‘Why are you telling me how successful you are?’ I am always suspicious of those kinds of boasts.” -Simon Cowell
16- “It simply works. You do it twice a year. Who cares? And it balances my smoking and drinking.” -Simon Cowell
17- “It’s not our intention to be mean. That’s just within us.” -Simon Cowell
18- “So I would only feel guilt if I misled somebody who was terrible.” -Simon Cowell
19- “I can’t think of one person who is on TV who isn’t vain. It’s the nature of the beast. If you are on TV then you have a vanity, for sure. Just admit it! Why not?” -Simon Cowell
20- “Every show I’ve ever, you know, produced, essentially it’s the show I want to watch myself.” -Simon Cowell
21- “It’s the government’s job to encourage entrepreneurialism and investment. Most importantly, it’s the government’s duty to inspire confidence.” -Simon Cowell
22- “Of course I have an ego, but you have to have an ego. You have to be incredibly competitive. I can get competitive at times, way too much, and it becomes a little bit obsessive.” -Simon Cowell
23- “If I tape an 11-hour day, guess which parts end up on air. Not the bits when I’m pleasant, but the parts when I’m obnoxious.” -Simon Cowell
24- “Beyonce is good-looking. Jennifer Lopez is good-looking. Madonna used to be good-looking.” -Simon Cowell
25- “Talking to celebrities is too much effort. They all think the same.” -Simon Cowell
26- “I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don’t know what that audience are into and I don’t particularly like that kind of music.” -Simon Cowell
27- “If you’ve got a big mouth and you’re controversial, you’re going to get attention.” -Simon Cowell
28- I think America is a hard nut to crack. But once you get a toehold, it’s a great place for an entrepreneur because people are so enthusiastic, and you have the most enthusiastic audiences in world.” -Simon Cowell
29- “I couldn’t think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I’ve seen it destroy people.” -Simon Cowell
30- “There’s no need for me to get married. I live with someone; we’re happy; end of story.” -Simon Cowell
31- “We felt the time was right to open up the boundaries, and say to all of America, regardless of your age, whether you’re 2, whether you’re 100, regardless of what you believe your talent is – juggling, magic, singing – this is the show you can enter. It’s as simple as that.” -Simon Cowell
32- “I think of stress as the creator of cancer and heart attacks, like a tiny little ball you feed. I believe that one of the reasons I’ve never got ill is that I’m not stressed.” -Simon Cowell
33- “I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.” -Simon Cowell
34- “I was so tired, wasn’t having fun any more, and wasn’t sure if I wanted to do this any longer. So I turned my phone off and sorted my head out. It was the opposite of a breakdown really, it was a break-up – I got rid of all the idiots, realised my job was supposed to be fun, and got on with my life.” -Simon Cowell
35- “I’ve always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn’t like but who I was in fear of, because I wanted my salary.” -Simon Cowell
36- “My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.” -Simon Cowell
37- “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.” -Simon Cowell
38- “My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don’t.” -Simon Cowell
39- “I do a couple of hundred press-ups a day but I haven’t been to a gym in years.” -Simon Cowell
40- “I’ve spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on the very best security and I can assure you my homes are as safe as the Bank of England.” -Simon Cowell
41- “If you only ever heard Lady Gaga, she’s the most boring singer in the world.” -Simon Cowell
42- “You sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking.” -Simon Cowell
43- “The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated.” -Simon Cowell
44- “Thank God kids love following an artist. When you get a group who pop, it’s the best thing in the world.” -Simon Cowell
45- “Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.” -Simon Cowell
46- “You have to be original. The people creating a buzz on YouTube are taking risks, and they’re doing something different. I like it when 15 year-olds come on and tell me what to do rather than the other way around.” -Simon Cowell
47- “If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.” -Simon Cowell
48- “The only magazines I read are car magazines.” -Simon Cowell
49- “I’ve never liked the idea you have to be a certain age to be a pop star. I like the idea that anybody can enter, anybody can compete.” -Simon Cowell
50- “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.” -Simon Cowell
51- “I never knew how much love and pride I would feel.” -Simon Cowell
52- “You are a saucy little thing aren’t you?” -Simon Cowell
53- “It’s personalities, it’s conflict, it’s all of these things that actually make performers interesting.” -Simon Cowell
54- “If I went to a psychiatrist, it would be a long session. I’ve always thought that I do have a number of issues that probably need dealing with, because I am quite odd in some ways.” -Simon Cowell
55- “Anything I shouldn’t laugh at makes me laugh.” -Simon Cowell
56- “Not everybody is perfect, and I don’t think we should be looking for perfect people.” -Simon Cowell
57- “I’ve always treated the music business as a business.” -Simon Cowell
58- “Holding auditions in front of an audience is testing.” -Simon Cowell
59- “I don’t mind being cast as some kind of a pantomime baddie, but I am very fair in business. I always have been. I pride myself on being fair.” -Simon Cowell
60- “If I had to say who is the number-one most powerful figure is in reality TV, it’s very easy. It is the general public. They’re the only people who have power now.” -Simon Cowell
61- “You don’t go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn’t make it.” -Simon Cowell
62- “Rules equal boredom, and I don’t like that.” -Simon Cowell
63- “We have hated the French for years. Now you have just joined the club. It makes you much more likable.” -Simon Cowell
64- “You didn’t beat the compotition you crushed the compotition!” -Simon Cowell
65- “I genuinely believed no one would want to marry me. I am difficult to live with. I’m selfish, quite weird and I need time on my own to think – and then I work all night long. That is difficult for someone to deal with. And it would drive me mad – I could never be my own girlfriend!” -Simon Cowell
66- “My attitude is, if someone’s going to criticize me, tell me to my face.” -Simon Cowell
67- “I work out three or four times a week, I have Botox, take tons of vitamins and vitamin infusions – if you believe that these things work, you will feel better.” -Simon Cowell
68- “My heart, my lungs, my blood – they’ve all been checked. I remember one of the doctors almost being disappointed when he showed me the results because he couldn’t wait to tell me what smoking was doing to me. But there was nothing there.” -Simon Cowell
69- “If I go into a relationship with an artist, which at most is going to last five years, we have a 100-page contract covering every eventuality. Whereas with marriage you go into it with no contract, with laws that date back hundreds of years, and I don’t think that’s right.” -Simon Cowell
70- “I do see a big difference in the American work ethic compared to the British work ethic in a lot of artists.” -Simon Cowell
71- “Most things in music go full circle eventually.” -Simon Cowell
72- “I’ve had Botox, but then again pretty much everyone I know has. To me, Botox is no more unusual than toothpaste. It works. You do it once a year – who cares?” -Simon Cowell
73- “If I said to most of the people who auditioned, ‘Good job, awesome, well done,’ it would have made me actually look and feel ridiculous. It’s quite obvious most of the people who turned up for this audition were hopeless.” -Simon Cowell
74- “You don’t hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face.” -Simon Cowell
75- “I’m obsessed with cleanliness for myself, so I will take a bath three times a day, sometimes a steam twice a day in addition to that.” -Simon Cowell
76- “I hate belongings. I hate clutter. It really bothers me because I can’t think properly. If you’ve got distractions in front of you, your mind goes nuts.” -Simon Cowell
77- “I’m a great believer in getting checked out because if you know you’re OK, you actually feel better; your mind plays a big part of it.” -Simon Cowell
78- “You always want to go to a party where you get an invite.” -Simon Cowell
79- “Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That’s harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who’ve got zero talent that they have zero talent actually is a kindness.” -Simon Cowell
80- “I actually don’t understand a word Paula’s saying anymore. It’s like a new language.” -Simon Cowell
81- “You know what the secret to weight loss is? Don’t eat much.” -Simon Cowell
82- “Music should always be polarizing. What one person likes, somebody else hates. And I hate that kind of snobbery in pop music. The fact that so many people are getting upset over this one song is hysterical. And if people like it, that’s great.” -Simon Cowell
83- “The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you’re dead.” -Simon Cowell
84 “I love TV. I love being behind the scenes on a TV show but there’s something about, I don’t know there’s something very special when you’ve signed an artist and that first record comes in and it’s a good record. It is an indescribable feeling.” -Simon Cowell
85- “I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.” -Simon Cowell
86- “I break up very well. I am a good breaker-upper.” -Simon Cowell
87- “I met someone the other night who’s 28 years old, and he hasn’t worked a day since he left college because he’s pursuing a dream he’ll never, ever realize: He thinks he’s a great singer. Actually, he’s crap.” -Simon Cowell
88- “When someone asks, ‘Does success make you into a monster?’ I always say, ‘No, it enables you to be a monster.’” -Simon Cowell
89- “My own saying is: ‘Create the hype, but don’t ever believe it.’” -Simon Cowell
90- “I like spaghetti bolognese, I like baked beans on toast. I hate French food. I hate fancy food.” -Simon Cowell
91- “I was slightly cynical of the American mentality before I came over here, but now I preach it. Here, no one’s going to tear you down if you buy yourself a $300,000 car. They’re likely to say: “Well, you probably worked hard for it. Good luck to you.”” -Simon Cowell
92- “Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.” -Simon Cowell
93- “I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.” -Simon Cowell
94- “In TV, film, and music there’s a lot of snobbery, and I don’t like it. I’ve never been a cultural snob.” -Simon Cowell
95- “I don’t want to tell a 15 or 14 year old what they should be doing. I want them to tell me. And that’s what I got when I met Justin Bieber for the first time.” -Simon Cowell
96- “The best way to kill someone is from the inside, by crushing their hopes and dreams.” -Simon Cowell
97- “There’s one argument that says we shouldn’t be putting these kids on under the age of 16. I think you’ve got to take it case by case.” -Simon Cowell
98- “The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.” -Simon Cowell
99- “I turned down many chances to be on TV before ‘Pop Idol’ because I really wasn’t interested in being famous. I didn’t need it and didn’t want it.” -Simon Cowell
100- “Good is not enough. You’ve got to be great.” -Simon Cowell
101- “They understand what their market is and who they should be selling records to, and most importantly, they know the kind of artist that they want to be, but they have to do it themselves. You don’t want a 13-year-old singing some awful song from a musical.” -Simon Cowell
102- “People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.” -Simon Cowell
103- “Anyone who goes on ‘The X Factor’ to make big money will be in for a big shock.” -Simon Cowell
104 “I should get a dog. I would get a rescue dog. I like mutts; I don’t care. I would probably get a three-legged dog no one else would want.” -Simon Cowell
105- “I grew up when the whole Motown thing was huge. The charts in those days were dominated by groups more than solo artists at one point.” -Simon Cowell
106- “My dad did teach me a very important lesson about people when he explained to me that everybody around you will have an invisible sign on their head, which says, “Make me feel important.”” -Simon Cowell
107- “Normally if I go to one of these things I’m in and out in five minutes, but at Pride of Britain I stay to the end. It’s a fantastic show. But it’s incredibly hard on the night when you meet all the kids and hear their stories. They do get to you.” -Simon Cowell
108- “That was extraordinary. Unfortunately, extraordinarily bad.” -Simon Cowell
109 “Well, it’s basically the viewers who determine it. We – well, basically the producers and myself chose the people we felt had the best reaction, you know, through the press, the Internet, the people we thought deserved a second chance. And they’ve chosen a winner, I believe.” -Simon Cowell
110- “I didn’t realise how important stupid people are in your life, because you ask yourself, what made stupid people so stupid? What made them the way they are?” -Simon Cowell
111- “As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he’s a genius.” -Simon Cowell
112- “I get very anti-social, depressed and irritable with people. I don’t have time for them. I can’t make phone calls and stuff. I just sit on my own for days.” -Simon Cowell
113- “Choosing how you vote should not be a snap verdict based on a few minutes of television.” -Simon Cowell
114- “Maybe I am a bit mad.” -Simon Cowell
115- “It would hurt my feelings if I respected your opinions.” -Simon Cowell
116- “What other people think about me is none of my business.” -Simon Cowell
117- “Everyone who turns up on ‘X Factor’ does it because a door has been closed to them at some time in their lives, and this is the only shot they have got.” -Simon Cowell
118- “Being different is good; embrace it.” -Simon Cowell
119- “The only people with power today are the audience. And that is increasing with Twitter, Facebook, and everything else. We cater to their likes and dislikes, and you ignore that at your peril.” -Simon Cowell
120- “Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don’t compromise.” -Simon Cowell
121- “Britain’s got talent, enormous talent; that’s very obvious.” -Simon Cowell
122- “The artists who endure are the ones who stay focused even after they have reached the top of their profession.” -Simon Cowell
123- “Sincerity is romantic. I don’t think you need gestures.” -Simon Cowell
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