My daughters have strong personalities. I’m close to them but they don’t really need me to advise them on how to manage their lives and they don’t ask me to do that.
BERNIE ECCLESTONEAnyone who doesn’t speak English isn’t worth speaking to
More Bernie Ecclestone Quotes
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I’m a dealer. That’s exactly right. I’m a used car dealer.
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I’ve never told anybody this, so I don’t know if maybe you shouldn’t print it, but I’ve made plans. I’m only going to continue doing this for another 25 years.
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I have no regrets about the amount of work I put into the sport. This is what I needed to do with my life.
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Don’t forget I started looking at China a long time before any of those races happened. I always thought go east, not west.
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When there is more money at stake it affects the atmosphere and things become more businesslike.
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I have a lot of faith in justice systems around the world even though there were cases in the past where that faith wasn’t justified in some countries.
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You’re born with certain gifts and you use them as best you can in life. You begin to learn and recognize that you have certain skills and aptitudes that you apply and use them to carry you forward.
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Waiters are like hookers, never around when you want them.
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Take away Toto Wolff’s Mercedes shirt and send Sebastian [Vettel] down a street – nobody would recognize him.
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You have to hope that your opponents are unlucky. Never only rely on your own luck.
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I’d rather the handshake for somebody that I can trust than a contract. Because you can read the bloody contract – perhaps if you made a little bit of a mistake writing it – in a way to suit you.
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Nico [Rosberg] is not seeking the limelight as Lewis [Hamilton] does. Lewis wants to be famous.
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I was delighted with Baku. People said I was completely mad; I was so happy when it all turned out all right.
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If somebody says, “You like putting out fires,” and I say, “It’s not a case of liking it, but I do put them out, and if there aren’t fires left I make them, so I can put them out.” It’s what we do.
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I have 100 percent confidence in the German judicial system.
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