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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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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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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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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Lewis [Hamilton] is a hero in the UK. The British love Formula One. Sebastian (Vettel) is also not doing much for F1. People hardly recognize him on the street.
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I’d rather get to the 70-year-old guy who’s got plenty of cash.
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I can’t remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist.
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If I feel like something’s gonna be right, I invest in it, whatever it is.
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If you’re going to take the attitude, I don’t think it will work, you will never do anything.
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I simply scraped together all my experience and put it into the sport.
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Women should be all dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances.
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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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[Maurizio Arrivabene is quite a character] but only for himself and not for Formula One.
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[When I’ll be old I see myself] as a world champion, on a big farm with an Italian-style, big family with a whole bunch of grandchildren. And the foundations for that I have already laid!
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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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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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