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Bernie Ecclestone

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Bernie Ecclestone
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: October 28
Business Magnate
Businessperson
Formula One Driver
Bungay
Suffolk
Bernard Charles Ecclestone
Bernard Charles Bernie Ecclestone
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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.
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If we didn't have Nico [Rosberg] and Lewis [Hamilton] in those cars - there's one or two guys down the field who in those cars would have delivered the same.
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It'd be good for the world if [Donald Trump] won.
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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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When there is more money at stake it affects the atmosphere and things become more businesslike.
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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 have always been happy to have daughters rather than sons. You never really can be mad at girls for anything in life.
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I have so much respect for [Bernie Ecclestone] for what he did with this sport. He did so much more than people in tennis or football.
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If I feel like something's gonna be right, I invest in it, whatever it is.
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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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Women should be all dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances.
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[Maurizio Arrivabene is quite a character] but only for himself and not for Formula One.
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I have earned the money and changed the nappies!
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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 have a lot of faith in justice systems around the world even though there were cases in the past where that faith wasn't justified in some countries.
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I can't remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist.
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Two races we've lost which I'm genuinely upset about were India and Turkey.
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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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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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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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