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 got on a high believing everything I would produce was going to sell at the rate I wanted.
I'm an Englishman. What more can I say?
I've just got an exceptional memory, if I say so myself.
I'm a commercial person, not an academic.
I get angry when people bring derisory actions against me.
I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.
I did not come into football to make money. I had already made millions.
I am tired of hustling.
Love what you do and do what you love, otherwise you will become unhappy and self-defeating.
It will take a brave person to cull the benefits system and analyse who deserves and who doesn't.
Look, I'm a member of the House of Lords and I'm the first to admit that I don't understand how one gets new laws through.
Money is all right but once you have it you learn it's not the be all and end all.
My history of lending money from banks is that they want to know the ins and outs of the backside of a duck.
I've got a gut feeling in my stomach. . .