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 ECCLESTONEYou might have asked [about skill] of an artist or a musician or whatever… but with me it just happens.
More Bernie Ecclestone Quotes
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I won’t be threatened or intimidated by anyone and I’ve always been prepared to do what is necessary to defend my interests.
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But when it comes to F1 I am a huge Lewis [Hamilton] fan because he is a super promoter of the sport. From a pure business aspect – sorry Nico if I have to say this – you are not so good for my business.
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I’m a dealer. That’s exactly right. I’m a used car dealer.
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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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I never neglected my daughters – quite the opposite – but I suppose I could have and should have spent more time with them.
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[Donald] Trump, I think, is the sort of guy that if he maybe thought he’d made a little bit of a mistake, would find a way out, he wouldn’t want to say, “Well, that’s what I’ve done and I’m sticking to it, and I don’t give a damn.” Which is what the other people in America would be like.
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I think the way I do things would be difficult to teach somebody to do. They need to get another good used car dealer. That’s what they need. Find a good car dealer.
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I have always been happy to have daughters rather than sons. You never really can be mad at girls for anything in life.
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You need to have proper management if you’re going to move forward.
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If you say ‘Good Morning’ in America and it’s five past twelve you end up with a lawsuit.
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Actually I think I have forgotten how it was back then. Or probably not – I didn’t qualify. There were only 16 cars in the race.
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Each new deal is another opportunity.
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You can’t compare eras. But drivers of each era adapt to the needs and climate of their time. There are good and bad points to every era of the sport. I’m not really nostalgic about the past.
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When people want to built new tracks, they want to look at Silverstone. We don’t want it built like that. It’s quite embarrassing.
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When there is more money at stake it affects the atmosphere and things become more businesslike.
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