I’m a dealer. That’s exactly right. I’m a used car dealer.
BERNIE ECCLESTONETake away Toto Wolff’s Mercedes shirt and send Sebastian [Vettel] down a street – nobody would recognize him.
More Bernie Ecclestone Quotes
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I simply scraped together all my experience and put it into the sport.
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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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Anyone who doesn’t speak English isn’t worth speaking to
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With [Vladimir] Putin, he says he’s going to do something, he gets on it, does it.
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It’d be good for the world if [Donald Trump] won.
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I’d rather get to the 70-year-old guy who’s got plenty of cash.
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You need to have proper management if you’re going to move forward.
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I also would rather race than strut red carpets in Hollywood – and thank God this is not my job – but also the team principals should be more prominent.
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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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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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Nico [Rosberg] is not seeking the limelight as Lewis [Hamilton] does. Lewis wants to be famous.
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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 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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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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[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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