I’ve never told anybody this, so I don’t know if maybe you shouldn’t print it, but I’ve made plans. I’m only going to continue doing this for another 25 years.
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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Each new deal is another opportunity.
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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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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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I’m a dealer. That’s exactly right. I’m a used car dealer.
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Two races we’ve lost which I’m genuinely upset about were India and Turkey.
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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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A wise man who was always helpful to me: Mr (Enzo) Ferrari. He always supported me.
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I was always determined that races should begin on time and I never deviated from that policy.
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[Maurizio Arrivabene is quite a character] but only for himself and not for Formula One.
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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 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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You have to hope that your opponents are unlucky. Never only rely on your own luck.
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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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I simply scraped together all my experience and put it into the sport.
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