Alan Sugar famous quotes

Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.
-- Alan Sugar

#Back To Work

If you enjoy what you do, don't be afraid of expressing your enthusiasm. Enjoyment is infectious.
-- Alan Sugar

#Enthusiasm #Enjoy #Enjoyment

A good leader is not necessarily the most popular person in their business, but the best ones are liked because they are respected for their clarity and vision.
-- Alan Sugar

#Inspirational #Leader #Vision

Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma
-- Alan Sugar

#Personality #Earning #Charisma

You can't stop people printing what they want to print.
-- Alan Sugar

#People #Want #Printing

The boring side of business is what makes it work.
-- Alan Sugar

#Business #Sides #Boring

The entrepreneurial instinct is in you. You can't learn it, you can't buy it, you can't put it in a bottle. It's just there and it comes out.
-- Alan Sugar

#Bottles #Instinct #Entrepreneurial

I don't make enemies, it's just I'm not afraid to speak my mind, which can sometimes mean people don't like what I am saying
-- Alan Sugar

#Mean #People #Mind

I know you're Belgian, that's where those waffles come from.
-- Alan Sugar

#Waffles #Belgians

I knоw you're Belgian, that's whеrе thоsе waffles соmе frоm
-- Alan Sugar

#Waffles #Belgians

Love what you do and do what you love, otherwise you will become unhappy and self-defeating.
-- Alan Sugar

#Self #Unhappy

Among some of the youngsters, I think reality TV has installed that culture into them and inspired a few of them into wanting to be 'TV celebrities.
-- Alan Sugar

#Thinking #Reality #Tvs

I've written books on advertising-cheque books.
-- Alan Sugar

#Book #Advertising #Cheques

There is a lot of luck in football. Following England is like following Wycombe Wanders or Leyton Orient. You hope for the best and hope you are lucky.
-- Alan Sugar

#Football #Luck #England

During negotiations nothing is gained by attacking people's comfort zones.
-- Alan Sugar

#Business #People #Comfort

Market leaders inevitably slip into decline when they tell the people what they want instead of giving the people what they want.
-- Alan Sugar

#Business #People #Giving

I am not looking for a friend; if I want a friend I'd buy a dog.
-- Alan Sugar

#Friendship #Friends #Dog

There are two fools in every marketplace; one asks too little, one asks too much.
-- Alan Sugar

#Two #Stupidity #Littles

Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors.
-- Alan Sugar

#Wisdom #Entrepreneur #Intelligence

There's a lot of regrets about last year - maybe turning up was the biggest regret about it
-- Alan Sugar

#Regret #Years #Lasts

If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel,' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.
-- Alan Sugar

#Teacher #Years #Piano

I like things in their proper places.
-- Alan Sugar

If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them, too.
-- Alan Sugar

#Nuclear #Weapons #Mass

An entrepreneur is not what you call yourself, it's what someone calls you in recognition of what you've achieved. I call Richard Branson an entrepreneur. Rupert Murdoch called me one. Anybody who stands up and says: 'I'm an entrepreneur' needs shooting. You'll drive people crazy.
-- Alan Sugar

#Crazy #People #Entrepreneur

Above all, in order to gain respect, you need to be true to yourself. There is no point in trying to be brutal if it's not in your nature; there is no point in trying to be suave and sophisticated if it doesn't come naturally.
-- Alan Sugar

#Order #Trying #Suave

It is torment to be segregated out because of some bit of clothing that you're wearing.
-- Alan Sugar

#Torment #Clothings

It will take a brave person to cull the benefits system and analyse who deserves and who doesn't.
-- Alan Sugar

#Brave #Benefits #Persons

Look, I'm a member of the House of Lords and I'm the first to admit that I don't understand how one gets new laws through.
-- Alan Sugar

#Law #House #Looks

Money is all right but once you have it you learn it's not the be all and end all.
-- Alan Sugar

#Ends

My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker.
-- Alan Sugar

#Mother #Father #Garments

Nobody can honestly say that they never lie.
-- Alan Sugar

#Lying #Never Lie #Honestly

Not everybody needs to go to university; they can get out and start working straight away.
-- Alan Sugar

#Needs #University

There was a desire to see me being nasty and horrible, and of course that's not really me
-- Alan Sugar

#Desire #Nasty #Horrible

I don't believe in God and all that. But I am Jewish, and very proud to be so, very proud of the culture.
-- Alan Sugar

#Believe #Culture #Proud

Don't try to blame the rest of the world. The blame only lies with you. Recognize that immediately.
-- Alan Sugar

#Lying #Trying #World

My history of lending money from banks is that they want to know the ins and outs of the backside of a duck.
-- Alan Sugar

#Ducks #Want #Lending

In America, everybody thinks they're an entrepreneur. That's the problem. It's not a title that anybody should call oneself.
-- Alan Sugar

#Thinking #America #Entrepreneur

I did not come into football to make money. I had already made millions.
-- Alan Sugar

#Football #Making Money #Made

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.
-- Alan Sugar

#Taxes #Cents

I don't like this young crudeness now which is supposed to be comedy on Friday nights.
-- Alan Sugar

#Friday #Night #Comedy

I get angry when people bring derisory actions against me.
-- Alan Sugar

#People #Action #Angry

I have no patience at all.
-- Alan Sugar

#No Patience #I Have No Patience

I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.
-- Alan Sugar

#Principles #Compromise

I like to be a very fair person.
-- Alan Sugar

#Persons

I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents.
-- Alan Sugar

#Caring #Parent #Feelings

I'm a commercial person, not an academic.
-- Alan Sugar

#Academic #Persons

I've just got an exceptional memory, if I say so myself.
-- Alan Sugar

#Memories #Exceptional

I am tired of hustling.
-- Alan Sugar

#Tired #Hustle