I was always determined that races should begin on time and I never deviated from that policy.
BERNIE ECCLESTONEWomen should be all dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances.
More Bernie Ecclestone Quotes
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Anyone who doesn’t speak English isn’t worth speaking to
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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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Take away Toto Wolff’s Mercedes shirt and send Sebastian [Vettel] down a street – nobody would recognize him.
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Forget what others whisper in your ears. Most of that is pure rubbish that obstructs the view to what really is important. Always make your own decisions. That is what makes us human.
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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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Waiters are like hookers, never around when you want them.
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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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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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As I small child and hearing all the stories about him I, of course, looked up to him as some kind of miracle. Then I got to eight years old and suddenly I was taller than [Bernie Ecclestone].
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I always thought that dads in the old days where rather macho types who wouldn’t get close to a baby, let alone change nappies.
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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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If you’re going to take the attitude, I don’t think it will work, you will never do anything.
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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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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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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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I suppose it’s knowing when you’ve come up with an idea that works, when you’ve got it right, whatever it is.
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I think in the end officials in each country’s judicial system will do what they believe is right because if they do something bad to somebody it’s on their conscience for the rest of their lives.
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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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Nico [Rosberg] is not seeking the limelight as Lewis [Hamilton] does. Lewis wants to be famous.
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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.
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I simply scraped together all my experience and put it into the sport.
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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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With [Vladimir] Putin, he says he’s going to do something, he gets on it, does it.
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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 might have asked [about skill] of an artist or a musician or whatever… but with me it just happens.
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Before they go to the race, people want to think four or five guys could win, but now… Normally you’d say, “One of those two, and I think it’s going to be Lewis [Hamiltom],” because that’s what had been proved up to now – thank God that Nico [Rosberg] has won some races.
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