They brought me into the world. I might have been a mistake one Saturday night after the war. I must have been the greatest mistake they’ve ever made. – Alan Sugar Asked by Piers Morgan what he felt he owed to his parents.
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
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. – Alan Sugar
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. – Alan Sugar
Not everybody needs to go to university; they can get out and start working straight away. – Alan Sugar
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. – Alan Sugar
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
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.’ – Alan Sugar
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. – Alan Sugar
The only people whose opinions I worry about are my wife, my children, and my employees. – Alan Sugar
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
Well, it’s not hard to be number one entertaining Jew. Some of them are quite bleeding bloody miserable, really. – Alan Sugar
In America, everybody thinks they’re an entrepreneur. That’s the problem. It’s not a title that anybody should call oneself. – Alan Sugar
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
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
There’s too much of a culture that exists out there, what I call an expectancy culture, of things being provided. – Alan Sugar