I have always been happy to have daughters rather than sons. You never really can be mad at girls for anything in life.
BERNIE ECCLESTONEMy 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.
More Bernie Ecclestone Quotes
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It’d be good for the world if [Donald Trump] won.
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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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It’s the best thing to happen to a sport, that you have a superstar. In football there is always something to write about the Beckhams, same as people want to write about Rooney or Hooney or whatever his bloody name is.
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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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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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If you’re going to take the attitude, I don’t think it will work, you will never do anything.
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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 am happy that we have somebody like Lewis [Hamilton]. I also couldn’t be like Lewis. I don’t like gold jewelry!
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I can’t remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist.
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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’d rather get to the 70-year-old guy who’s got plenty of cash.
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If you say ‘Good Morning’ in America and it’s five past twelve you end up with a lawsuit.
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Two races we’ve lost which I’m genuinely upset about were India and Turkey.
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[Maurizio Arrivabene is quite a character] but only for himself and not for Formula One.
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When there is more money at stake it affects the atmosphere and things become more businesslike.
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