[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.
BERNIE ECCLESTONEIf somebody says, “You like putting out fires,” and I say, “It’s not a case of liking it, but I do put them out, and if there aren’t fires left I make them, so I can put them out.” It’s what we do.
More Bernie Ecclestone Quotes
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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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Women should be all dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances.
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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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Take away Toto Wolff’s Mercedes shirt and send Sebastian [Vettel] down a street – nobody would recognize him.
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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’m a dealer. That’s exactly right. I’m a used car dealer.
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I have earned the money and changed the nappies!
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You can’t make decisions if there are no charges or issues to deal with. So it’s quite normal to wait until there is some reason to react.
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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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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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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 simply scraped together all my experience and put it into the sport.
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It’d be good for the world if [Donald Trump] won.
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Our sport is ruled whether it’s for good and bad, or whatever, for technical things. There’s lots of teams out there that could and should have done better if they’d have had technical things. I suppose in the end that basically revolves around how much money they’re gonna get.
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I think I would find it easier to talk with Nico [Rosenberg] than Lewis [Hamilton], as Lewis is into things that are very distant to me.
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