If I feel like something’s gonna be right, I invest in it, whatever it is.
BERNIE ECCLESTONEDon’t forget I started looking at China a long time before any of those races happened. I always thought go east, not west.
More Bernie Ecclestone Quotes
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Under the engine cover, no one cares what’s in there. Nobody cares.
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You need to have proper management if you’re going to move forward.
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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 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 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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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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You might have asked [about skill] of an artist or a musician or whatever… but with me it just happens.
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Two races we’ve lost which I’m genuinely upset about were India and Turkey.
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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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I have so much respect for [Bernie Ecclestone] for what he did with this sport. He did so much more than people in tennis or football.
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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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Anyone who doesn’t speak English isn’t worth speaking to
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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’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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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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