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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

I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.
SIMON COWELL

Levels School Three
Anything I shouldn’t laugh at makes me laugh. I mean, I’m bad at that, when somebody is singing something terribly and I’m thinking to myself, ‘If I laugh now, this is the absolute worst thing I could ever do,’ and then I start laughing and I can’t stop.
SIMON COWELL

Laughing Mean Thinking
I don’t mind competition at all. I mean, the record business is the most competitive business in the world, probably. So I’m used to that. In a weird way, it kind of makes you work harder.
SIMON COWELL

Competition Hard Mean Work
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

Air Country Hours People Tape
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

Boss Salary Wanted
You don’t hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face.
SIMON COWELL

Hate Mosquitoes Want
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

Ego Littles Much Times Too
You didn’t beat the compotition you crushed the compotition!
SIMON COWELL

Beats Country Crushed People
I like spaghetti bolognese, I like baked beans on toast. I hate French food. I hate fancy food.
SIMON COWELL

Fancy Hate Spaghetti
At 20, you’re cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.
SIMON COWELL

Cocky Thinking World
I break up very well. I am a good breaker-upper.
SIMON COWELL

Break Broken Hearted Moving
I look at him [son Eric] and I think of my dad all the time…. I was born to be a dad.
SIMON COWELL

Born Dad Son Thinking
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

Being Different People Want
The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.
SIMON COWELL

Animals Stars
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

Artist Country People Song Understand Years
There’s no need for me to get married. I live with someone; we’re happy; end of story.
SIMON COWELL

Married Needs Stories

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