I suppose it’s knowing when you’ve come up with an idea that works, when you’ve got it right, whatever it is.
BERNIE ECCLESTONEAs 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].
More Bernie Ecclestone Quotes
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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 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 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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[Donald] Trump would want to cosy up to him for sure, and he’d be right to do that. Which would be good for the world.
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I have 100 percent confidence in the German judicial system.
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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 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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Anyone who doesn’t speak English isn’t worth speaking to
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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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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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Each new deal is another opportunity.
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Women should be all dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances.
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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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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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