Alan Sugar Quotes:

Ocupation: Business person

Life: b. March 24, 1947

Birthday: March 24

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Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.

Topics: Back To Work

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If you enjoy what you do, don't be afraid of expressing your enthusiasm. Enjoyment is infectious.

Topics: Enthusiasm, Enjoy, Enjoyment

A good leader is not necessarily the most popular person in their business, but the best ones are liked because they are respected for their clarity and vision.

Topics: Inspirational, Leader, Vision

Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma

Topics: Personality, Earning, Charisma, Earn Respect

You can't stop people printing what they want to print.

Topics: People, Want, Printing

The boring side of business is what makes it work.

Topics: Business, Sides, Boring

The entrepreneurial instinct is in you. You can't learn it, you can't buy it, you can't put it in a bottle. It's just there and it comes out.

Topics: Bottles, Instinct, Entrepreneurial

I don't make enemies, it's just I'm not afraid to speak my mind, which can sometimes mean people don't like what I am saying

Topics: Mean, People, Mind

I know you're Belgian, that's where those waffles come from.

Topics: Waffles, Belgians

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Topics: Waffles, Belgians

Love what you do and do what you love, otherwise you will become unhappy and self-defeating.

Topics: Self, Unhappy

Among some of the youngsters, I think reality TV has installed that culture into them and inspired a few of them into wanting to be 'TV celebrities.

Topics: Thinking, Reality, Tvs, Reality Tv

I've written books on advertising-cheque books.

Topics: Book, Advertising, Cheques

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.

Topics: Football, Luck, England

During negotiations nothing is gained by attacking people's comfort zones.

Topics: Business, People, Comfort

Market leaders inevitably slip into decline when they tell the people what they want instead of giving the people what they want.

Topics: Business, People, Giving, Market Leaders

I am not looking for a friend; if I want a friend I'd buy a dog.

Topics: Friendship, Friends, Dog

There are two fools in every marketplace; one asks too little, one asks too much.

Topics: Two, Stupidity, Littles

Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors.

Topics: Wisdom, Entrepreneur, Intelligence

There's a lot of regrets about last year - maybe turning up was the biggest regret about it

Topics: Regret, Years, Lasts

If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel,' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.

Topics: Teacher, Years, Piano, Piano Teachers

I like things in their proper places.

If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them, too.

Topics: Nuclear, Weapons, Mass

An entrepreneur is not what you call yourself, it's what someone calls you in recognition of what you've achieved. I call Richard Branson an entrepreneur. Rupert Murdoch called me one. Anybody who stands up and says: 'I'm an entrepreneur' needs shooting. You'll drive people crazy.

Topics: Crazy, People, Entrepreneur

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.

Topics: Order, Trying, Suave, No Point In Trying

It is torment to be segregated out because of some bit of clothing that you're wearing.

Topics: Torment, Clothings

It will take a brave person to cull the benefits system and analyse who deserves and who doesn't.

Topics: Brave, Benefits, Persons, Brave Person

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.

Topics: Law, House, Looks, House Of Lords

Money is all right but once you have it you learn it's not the be all and end all.

Topics: Ends

My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker.

Topics: Mother, Father, Garments

Nobody can honestly say that they never lie.

Topics: Lying, Never Lie, Honestly

Not everybody needs to go to university; they can get out and start working straight away.

Topics: Needs, University

There was a desire to see me being nasty and horrible, and of course that's not really me

Topics: Desire, Nasty, Horrible

I don't believe in God and all that. But I am Jewish, and very proud to be so, very proud of the culture.

source: - "Sir Alan Will See You Now". Interview with Sam Wollaston, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2009.

Topics: Believe, Culture, Proud

Don't try to blame the rest of the world. The blame only lies with you. Recognize that immediately.

Topics: Lying, Trying, World

My history of lending money from banks is that they want to know the ins and outs of the backside of a duck.

source: - Interview with Gordon Brown, The Sun, December 11, 2009.

Topics: Ducks, Want, Lending, Lending Money, Backsides

In America, everybody thinks they're an entrepreneur. That's the problem. It's not a title that anybody should call oneself.

Topics: Thinking, America, Entrepreneur

I did not come into football to make money. I had already made millions.

Topics: Football, Making Money, Made

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

Topics: Taxes, Cents

I don't like this young crudeness now which is supposed to be comedy on Friday nights.

Topics: Friday, Night, Comedy, Friday Night

I get angry when people bring derisory actions against me.

Topics: People, Action, Angry

I have no patience at all.

Topics: No Patience, I Have No Patience

I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.

source: - Alan Sugar (2015). “Unscripted: My Ten Years in Telly”, p.210, Pan Macmillan

Topics: Principles, Compromise

I like to be a very fair person.

Topics: Persons

I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents.

Topics: Caring, Parent, Feelings

I'm a commercial person, not an academic.

Topics: Academic, Persons

I've just got an exceptional memory, if I say so myself.

Topics: Memories, Exceptional

I am tired of hustling.

Topics: Tired, Hustle

Start small and with your own money.

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.

Topics: School, Government, Ideas

I find it strange that Gisela Gschaider a 1974 immigrant from Germany is on the brexit panel telling us British what we should do .

source: - Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Topics: Germany, Strange, Should

I knоw you're Belgian, that's whеrе thоsе waffles соmе frоm

Topics: Waffles, Belgians

I got on a high believing everything I would produce was going to sell at the rate I wanted.

source: - Source: www.mirror.co.uk

Topics: Believe, Produce, Rate

I've got a gut feeling in my stomach. . .

Topics: Feelings, Gut Feelings, Stomach

Well, there's nothing I've done I'm not proud of. Making money was an interest, but it's never been my god.

source: - Source: www.mirror.co.uk

Topics: Done, Proud, Making Money

I'm an Englishman. What more can I say?

source: - Source: www.mirror.co.uk

Topics: Englishmen

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