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

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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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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Women should be all dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances.
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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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Take away Toto Wolff's Mercedes shirt and send Sebastian [Vettel] down a street - nobody would recognize him.
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It'd be good for the world if [Donald Trump] won.
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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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I can't remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist.
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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.
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[Maurizio Arrivabene is quite a character] but only for himself and not for Formula One.
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I simply scraped together all my experience and put it into the sport.
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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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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'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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[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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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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Nico [Rosberg] is not seeking the limelight as Lewis [Hamilton] does. Lewis wants to be famous.
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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.
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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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I'd rather get to the 70-year-old guy who's got plenty of cash.
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