Bernie Ecclestone famous quotes

03-26-2025

Anyone who doesn't speak English isn't worth speaking to
-- Bernie Ecclestone

#Speak
If you say 'Good Morning' in America and it's five past twelve you end up with a lawsuit.
-- Bernie Ecclestone

#Morning #Past #America
Waiters are like hookers, never around when you want them.
-- Bernie Ecclestone

#Want #Waiter
I can't remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist.
-- Bernie Ecclestone

#Kind #Remember #Journalist
I leave at half-time; by then you can see which way it's going. If you ask me to name five of our team, I couldn't. There's that guy who scores goals - Taarabt. Routledge I've heard of. All bloody nice guys but I don't mix with them so I don't know them well. I don't go in the dressing room. They can walk out of the showers and I feel I've got an inferiority complex.
-- Bernie Ecclestone

#Football #Nice #Team
Women should be all dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances.
-- Bernie Ecclestone

#White #Should #Appliances
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.
-- Bernie Ecclestone

#Sports #Football #Writing
People want to build new circuits around the world and they say: 'We'll come to Silverstone and have a look how it's done', and I tell them to stay away.
-- Bernie Ecclestone

#People #Looks #Done
I'd rather get to the 70-year-old guy who's got plenty of cash.
-- Bernie Ecclestone

#Years #Guy #Cash
Forget what others whisper in your ears. Most of that is pure rubbish that obstructs the view to what really is important. Always make your own decisions. That is what makes us human.
-- Bernie Ecclestone

#Views #Decision #Important
You have to hope that your opponents are unlucky. Never only rely on your own luck.
-- Bernie Ecclestone

#Luck #Opponents #Unlucky
You're born with certain gifts and you use them as best you can in life. You begin to learn and recognize that you have certain skills and aptitudes that you apply and use them to carry you forward.
-- Bernie Ecclestone

#Skills #Use #Aptitude
If you're going to take the attitude, I don't think it will work, you will never do anything.
-- Bernie Ecclestone

#Attitude #Thinking #Ifs
I have earned the money and changed the nappies!
-- Bernie Ecclestone

#Nappies #Changed
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.
-- Bernie Ecclestone

#Issues #Decision #Waiting
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.
-- Bernie Ecclestone

#Sports #Sorry #Fans
If I feel like something's gonna be right, I invest in it, whatever it is.
-- Bernie Ecclestone

#Feels #Like Something #Ifs
The banks don't have anything - no rights whatsoever. The banks are shareholders of SLEC, and SLEC has no rights. I am the CEO of Formula One Management and Formula One Administration, which runs the business in F1. From this point of view, I own F1.
-- Bernie Ecclestone

#Running #Rights #Views
[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.
-- Bernie Ecclestone

#Mistake #Thinking #America
Don't forget I started looking at China a long time before any of those races happened. I always thought go east, not west.
-- Bernie Ecclestone

#Race #Long #West
I have no regrets about the amount of work I put into the sport. This is what I needed to do with my life.
-- Bernie Ecclestone

#Sports #Regret #Needed
You need to have proper management if you're going to move forward.
-- Bernie Ecclestone

#Moving #Needs #Management
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.
-- Bernie Ecclestone

#Thinking #Winning #Two
I never neglected my daughters - quite the opposite - but I suppose I could have and should have spent more time with them.
-- Bernie Ecclestone

#Daughter #Should Have #Opposites
Probably when I gave things to Slavica [ Ecclestone], you know the shares of the company, and things like that. And she put it all in trust and the trust sold the shares. Um, would I turn the clock back if I could and so I still owned the company completely? Probably yes. It probably wasn't a good decision, but it was the decision that had to be made. Was I happy that I made it? No.
-- Bernie Ecclestone

#Decision #Clock #Share
I have 100 percent confidence in the German judicial system.
-- Bernie Ecclestone

#Judicial System #Judicial #Percent
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.
-- Bernie Ecclestone

#People #Track #Looks

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