Bernie Ecclestone Quotes

Women should be all dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances.

Forget what others whisper in your ears. Most of that is pure rubbish that obstructs the view to what really is important. Always make your own decisions. That is what makes us human.

Anyone who doesn't speak English isn't worth speaking to

If you say 'Good Morning' in America and it's five past twelve you end up with a lawsuit.

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.

If you're going to take the attitude, I don't think it will work, you will never do anything.

I'd rather get to the 70-year-old guy who's got plenty of cash.

[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.

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.

Probably when I gave things to Slavica [ Ecclestone], you know the shares of the company, and things like that. And she put it all in trust and the trust sold the shares. Um, would I turn the clock back if I could and so I still owned the company completely? Probably yes. It probably wasn't a good decision, but it was the decision that had to be made. Was I happy that I made it? No.

You have to hope that your opponents are unlucky. Never only rely on your own luck.

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.

Don't forget I started looking at China a long time before any of those races happened. I always thought go east, not west.

[Donald] Trump would want to cosy up to him for sure, and he'd be right to do that. Which would be good for the world.

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.

I have earned the money and changed the nappies!

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.

I have 100 percent confidence in the German judicial system.

Two races we've lost which I'm genuinely upset about were India and Turkey.

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.

I can't remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist.

I think we should SHUT UP, stop talking about negotiating anything, just be quiet and let things sort themselves out a little bit, and see what happens. Maybe there will be one or two other countries that think what Britain's done, we can do, and it seems the right way to go.

I also would rather race than strut red carpets in Hollywood - and thank God this is not my job - but also the team principals should be more prominent.

Waiters are like hookers, never around when you want them.

If I feel like something's gonna be right, I invest in it, whatever it is.

I have no regrets about the amount of work I put into the sport. This is what I needed to do with my life.

I always thought that dads in the old days where rather macho types who wouldn't get close to a baby, let alone change nappies.

As I small child and hearing all the stories about him I, of course, looked up to him as some kind of miracle. Then I got to eight years old and suddenly I was taller than [Bernie Ecclestone].

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.

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.

I suppose it's knowing when you've come up with an idea that works, when you've got it right, whatever it is.

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.

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.

Lewis [Hamilton] is a hero in the UK. The British love Formula One. Sebastian (Vettel) is also not doing much for F1. People hardly recognize him on the street.

I think we don't need some people in Brussels trying to run countries that are some distance apart, who don't speak the same language, don't eat the same food. There's a bit of difference between, Holland, if you like, and Italy.

I was delighted with Baku. People said I was completely mad; I was so happy when it all turned out all right.

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.

I never neglected my daughters - quite the opposite - but I suppose I could have and should have spent more time with them.

I think in the end officials in each country's judicial system will do what they believe is right because if they do something bad to somebody it's on their conscience for the rest of their lives.

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.

I was always determined that races should begin on time and I never deviated from that policy.

Each new deal is another opportunity.

I don't have any talent as an artist but I do have an awareness for business and what you need to bring to that world. It helps to know what you're good at.

With [Vladimir] Putin, he says he's going to do something, he gets on it, does it.

[Olympics] obviously, is not the easiest thing to do, and nobody makes any money out of. Yet, for the small amount of money they could [invest] in a Formula One race, they don't want to do it.

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.

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.

I'm a dealer. That's exactly right. I'm a used car dealer.

I think I would find it easier to talk with Nico [Rosenberg] than Lewis [Hamilton], as Lewis is into things that are very distant to me.

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.