In an era of transparency, you can have innovation without branding, but you cannot have branding without innovation.

Marketing is an investment, not a cost.

Somebody who is unique - and this will get me into trouble - by definition cannot be replaced.

You have to see it on a broader level. But you also have to activate it properly.

In our business, except in media buying, there are few economies of scale. Client perception of creative agencies is that the bigger they are, the worse they are.

We do things much the same way as we did 50, 60 or even 70 years ago. The answers may not be wrong, but we haven't experimented to see whether they are or not.

Technology will have moved on to an unimaginable level in ten years.

That is again a romantic notion: the hero. I think people enjoy a much more levelled playing field where you have the ability for many people to become heroes.

I believe that Virtual Reality will hit it big time. I know that some of my colleagues disagree, but I believe in it.

When I think back to 2005, the fast growth markets - what we call the fast growth markets - were probably ten percent of our business. They are now 31 percent.

It is always easy to criticize, as Bernie Ecclestone is somebody with extreme opinions.

Jesus isn't one of many

Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.

If people don't like it [my music] now, they will.

If we practiced medicine like we practice education, wed look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.

...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.

Do you know what Margaret Thatcher did in her first Budget? Introduced VAT on yachts! It somewhat ruined my retirement.

We cannot take credit for our record avancement in certain scientific fields alone. We have been helped, and we have been helped by the people of other worlds.

The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all

I went to all-girls' schools my whole life, so every model of leadership that I saw was a young girl or a woman, and so there was never any hesitation that women could lead. I know what I believe.