Words matter. These are the best Alan Sugar Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I have no patience at all.
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.
I get angry when people bring derisory actions against me.
You’ve got to admire Sir Richard Branson. He is a completely different style of businessman to me, but you have got to admire what he has achieved.
I have always been an honest trader. I come from a school of traders where there was honour in the deal. No contracts, just a handshake and that’s it, done. That’s the way I prefer to do business but it’s not always possible these days, sadly.
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.’
I came from a socially deprived background when I was 15, 16 years old, but one thing I knew was one – you don’t abuse a policeman, and two – you don’t steal things.
There’s too much of a culture that exists out there, what I call an expectancy culture, of things being provided.
I like things in their proper places.
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.
I’ve just got an exceptional memory, if I say so myself.
I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.
My main regret about my years in football was keeping my mouth shut like a little mouse, not daring to speak out because I was told you left the managers to get on with the job and that the chairman must never interfere with the manager’s decisions or the performance of his team.
It is torment to be segregated out because of some bit of clothing that you’re wearing.
Why work when you can fill out a few forms and get paid for doing nothing?
I like to keep fit.
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.
In America, everybody thinks they’re an entrepreneur. That’s the problem. It’s not a title that anybody should call oneself.
I don’t like paying 50 per cent of tax.
Well, it’s not hard to be number one entertaining Jew. Some of them are quite bleeding bloody miserable, really.
Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.
When I was a kid, a policeman was someone you looked up to and respected.
I believe employment regulations for women, whereby the prospective employer is not able to inquire about the interviewee’s status regarding children, childcare, or indeed their intention of becoming a parent, are counterproductive.
It will take a brave person to cull the benefits system and analyse who deserves and who doesn’t.
You can’t stop people printing what they want to print.
Youngsters have got to stop thinking about becoming the next Zuckerberg. It’s a trillion-to-one chance. What they need is mater and pater to say, ‘Get a job, son.’
I like to be a very fair person.
My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker.
I don’t like this young crudeness now which is supposed to be comedy on Friday nights.
I am tired of hustling.
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.
Money is all right but once you have it you learn it’s not the be all and end all.
I’m not that hands-on as a grandfather.
