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When there is more money at stake it affects the atmosphere and things become more businesslike.

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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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It's the engine. They should have never had that. The biggest mistake people have made... I say, people, because it wasn't just me alone, was not insisting Mercedes supply Red Bull an engine. Because had they supplied the same engine as they had, you would have seen good racing, you would have seen Red Bull up there last year.
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If somebody says, You like putting out fires, and I say, It's not a case of liking it, but I do put them out, and if there aren't fires left I make them, so I can put them out. It's what we do.
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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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I have earned the money and changed the nappies!
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I can't remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist.
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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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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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Anyone who doesn't speak English isn't worth speaking to
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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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As the cancellation of the German Grand Prix indicates, Germany is a terrible market for Formula One.
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I have no regrets about the amount of work I put into the sport. This is what I needed to do with my life.
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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'd rather get to the 70-year-old guy who's got plenty of cash.
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My 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.
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[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.
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Generally I still believe that Lewis [Hamilton] is the best champion that we have had in a long, long time. He manages to get to all different walks of life: red carpet, fashion business, and music - you name it.
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I believe when you say you're going to start a race at 2 p.m. then you should stick to that and start the race at 2 p.m. There's no maybe, could be or should be. You start the race on time. It's very simple.
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Women should be all dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances.
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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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