Alan Sugar
Alan Sugar
Alan Michael Sugar, Baron Sugaris an English business magnate, media personality, and political advisor. According to the Sunday Times Rich List, Sugar joined the “billionaire’s club" in 2015 and in 2016 they estimated his fortune at £1.15bn, and ranked him as the 95th richest person in the UK. In 2007, he sold his remaining interest in the consumer electronics company Amstrad, his largest and best-known business venture...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth24 March 1947
CityLondon, England
I'm an Englishman. What more can I say?
I'm a commercial person, not an academic.
I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.
My history of lending money from banks is that they want to know the ins and outs of the backside of a duck.
There was a desire to see me being nasty and horrible, and of course that's not really me
Start small and with your own money.
Nobody can honestly say that they never lie.
My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker.
My idea of government support was, you supply me with hospitals, schools and the environment to do well and that will do me fine. But do not poke your nose in my business.
I don't believe in God and all that. But I am Jewish, and very proud to be so, very proud of the culture.
I have no patience at all.
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.
I like things in their proper places.
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.