Bernie Ecclestone
Bernie Ecclestone
Bernard Charles "Bernie" Ecclestoneis a British business magnate. He is the chief executive of the Formula One Group, which manages Formula One and controls the commercial rights to the sport, and part-owns Delta Topco, the ultimate parent company of the Formula One Group. As such, he is generally considered the primary authority in Formula One racing and is most commonly described in tabloid journalism as "F1 Supremo"...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth28 October 1930
attitude thinking ifs
If you're going to take the attitude, I don't think it will work, you will never do anything.
kind remember journalist
I can't remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist.
people done world
People want to build new circuits around the world and they say: 'We'll come to Silverstone and have a look how it's done', and I tell them to stay away.
years guy cash
I'd rather get to the 70-year-old guy who's got plenty of cash.
want waiter
Waiters are like hookers, never around when you want them.
sports football writing
It's the best thing to happen to a sport, that you have a superstar. In football there is always something to write about the Beckhams, same as people want to write about Rooney or Hooney or whatever his bloody name is.
white should appliances
Women should be all dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances.
football nice team
I leave at half-time; by then you can see which way it's going. If you ask me to name five of our team, I couldn't. There's that guy who scores goals - Taarabt. Routledge I've heard of. All bloody nice guys but I don't mix with them so I don't know them well. I don't go in the dressing room. They can walk out of the showers and I feel I've got an inferiority complex.
people track looks
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.
running views rights
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.
speak-english speak
Anyone who doesn't speak English isn't worth speaking to
morning past america
If you say 'Good Morning' in America and it's five past twelve you end up with a lawsuit.