•Alan Williams went to Apple with some early tapes of the Beatles and offered to sell them. George said that he was broke, and the day's meeting at Apple had cost him £30,000 in lawyer's fees. He also said that Brian's business mistakes and the tax people had contributed to his financial straits. He told Allen he'd like to give him £5000 but he didn't have it. George finally gave Williams 16 rubies because he didn't have a checkbook (Williams).

•McCabe and Schonfeld: "Eventually, George is ready to talk business, but not before he's voiced a concern of his own. He has a complaint about the various groupies sitting outside the building that houses the ABKCO office. 'Allen, can't you get rid of those ABKCO scruffs?' he asks politely. 'They're bad for our image. They don't have the class of Apple scruffs'. Allen Klein is stumped for words, a very rare occurrence".

•Memo fr. George to all staff: The Hell's Angels will be in London within the next week on the way to straighten out Czechoslovakia. There will be twelve in number, complete with leather jackets and motorcycles...They may look as though they are going to do you in, but they are very straight and do good things, so don't fear them or uptight them. Try to assist them without neglecting your Apple Business and without letting them take control of Saville Row. December 4, 1968.

• Having seen firsthand the troubles that Lennon and McCartney were experiencing as a result of having an outside party control their publishing, both George Harrison and Ringo Starr left Apple Music Publishing and established their own individual publishing companies. Harrison was the first to launch his own company. In June he set up Sing Song Music, which would be administered by Apple Music [He would later change the name to Harrisongs after releasing Old Brown Shoe as the only song copyrighted by Sing Song] (Granados, S. Those Were the Days. p. 100).

•Taylor recalled that Harrison was particularly annoyed by Indians, who, having noted Harrison's fondness for Indian culture, appealed to Apple to help subsidize their education, or other personal needs (Granados, M. Those Were the Days. p. 27).

•"Here Comes the Sun", a song written at Eric Clapton's house after a particularly trying day of dealing with business matters. "One day I stayed off from business and went to Eric Clapton's house because it's nice, with trees and things (Shapiro, p. 92).

•Billy Preston: They asked me would I like to be on Apple Records. I was with Capitol at the time. The next day I went to the studio and they said, "You're on Apple". Which was a great as it gave me a chance to produce for the first time and also be able to sing, because most of my albums before that were just instrumental. George Harrison did most of the coproducing with me. Originally, it was supposed to be all four Beatles producing a couple songs for me, but that's when all the disturbances came up. So everybody kind of split up. But me and George hung in there.

•Q: "You know, you three... I mean, it sounds like he is saying it's all over."
George: "But it's more of a personal thing, you know. That's down to the management situation, you know, with Apple. Because Paul, really-- It was his idea to do Apple, and once it started going Paul was very active in there. And then it got really chaotic and we had to do something about it. When we started doing something about it, obviously Paul didn't have as much say in the matter, and then he decided... you know, because he wanted Lee Eastman his in-laws to run it and we didn't. Then that's the only reason, you know. That's the whole basis. But that's only a personal problem that he'll have to get over because that's... The reality is that he's out-voted and we're a partnership. We've got these companies which we all own 25 percent of each, and if there's a decision to be made then, like in any other business or group you have a vote, you know. And he was out-voted 3 to 1 and if he doesn't like it, it's really a pity. You know, because we're trying to do what's best for the Beatles as a group, or best for Apple as a company. We're not trying to do what's best for Paul and his in-laws, you know."

•George: "Well, I get on well with Ringo and John, and I try my best to get on well with Paul. And uhh, there's nothing much more we can... it's just a matter of time, you know, just for everybody to work out their own problems and once they've done that I'm sure we'll get back 'round the cycle again. But if not, you know, it's still alright. Whatever happens, you know, it's gonna be okay. In fact, it's never looked better from my point of view. It's really-- It's very good now-- in very good shape, the companies are in great shape. Apple Films, Apple Records. My song company is in good shape because I've been more productive over the last year or so. It's really good we got back alot of money that alot of people had that was ours; alot of percents that different people had. And it's really..."
(The Beatles Ultimate Experience Database: George Harrison Interview. New York City. April 1970)

•George: "Well, a bit of business, really. I came to see our new (Apple) office-- 1700 Broadway. And just a few little things to do with business. Also to see a few friends, and to pick up my visa. It's the first time I had a visa for 18 months, so I had to use it, you know."

•George Harrison: Also the Press Officer we had was useless. I think we all benefited when Derek got that position because he knew their needs having been a press man. We trusted his ability not to sacrifice us to them. I think it worked quite well (Giuliano Lost Int. p. 158).

•John Barnham, music arranger on Wonderwall: After the first day of playing flugelhorn George went out and bought me one. I ended up playing it on Jackie Lomax's The Eagle Laughs At You. So I got a trumpet and a very generous fee for my work on Wonderwall (Granados, S. Those Were the Days. p. 60).

•If there was a bright side to the Northern Songs debacle, it was that both George Harrison and Ringo Starr had not renewed their songwriting contracts with Northern Songs when their original contracts had expired in March 1968. Instead, they both had signed to Apple Publishing, which meant that The Beatles at least owned the songs that Harrison and Starr would write after 1968 (Granados, S. Those Were the Days. p. 93).

Income:

•The devotees of the Radha Krishna Temple were signed by George in 1969. Their record sold 70,000 in its first week.
George: "It didn't matter to me whether the record was a commercial success or not. The fact that is it helped one person, and that was what counted for me".