Alan Sugar Quotes

• 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.’

  Alan Sugar

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• 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.

  Alan Sugar

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• 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.

  Alan Sugar

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• 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.

  Alan Sugar

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• 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.

  Alan Sugar

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• 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.

  Alan Sugar

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• Why work when you can fill out a few forms and get paid for doing nothing?

  Alan Sugar

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

  Alan Sugar

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• When I was a kid, a policeman was someone you looked up to and respected.

  Alan Sugar

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• Well, it’s not hard to be number one entertaining Jew. Some of them are quite bleeding bloody miserable, really.

  Alan Sugar

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• There’s too much of a culture that exists out there, what I call an expectancy culture, of things being provided.

  Alan Sugar

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• The only people whose opinions I worry about are my wife, my children, and my employees.

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

  Alan Sugar

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• Nobody can honestly say that they never lie.

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

  Alan Sugar

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

  Alan Sugar

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  Tags in Learn, End

• 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.

  Alan Sugar

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

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

  Alan Sugar

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

  Alan Sugar

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  Tags in Torment, Segregated

Alan Sugar (39)

Birth:	24th March, 1947
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Author, Celebrity, Entrepreneur, Politician

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Alan Smith is an English footballer who plays for Milton Keynes Dons, having signed for them in July 2012 following his release by Newcastle United a few weeks earlier. He has also represented the England national football team, winning 19 caps. Smith first came to prominence as both a striker and an attacking right-midfielder during his early days at Leeds United before Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson converted him to a holding midfielder, a role in which he continued after his transfer to Newcastle United. Smith has earned a reputation as a hard-tackling player and is noted for his high work rate.

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