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Bernie Ecclestone

Bernie Ecclestone

Bernie Ecclestone

Bernard Charles "Bernie" Ecclestone (born 28 October 1930) is a British business magnate. He is the chief executive of the Formula One Group, which manages Formula One and controls the commercial rights to the sport, and part-owns Delta Topco, the ultimate parent company of Group.

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I dont have all the facts but given all the security at the house, Im assuming it was an inside job, the police should be able to work it out, shouldnt they?

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on FOX News 7 months ago World

They did n’t want a job - they wanted to travel, look at the bank account and be in the press. I have said it so many times before : we need another used-car dealer, and the used-car dealers that I have found make a lot more money than I do, so why should they change their business ?

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Sports

I am going to have a good look at how things work to see if I can come up with something more equal for all the teams, the Premier League has a good way of distributing the prize money, so maybe that could work for us. There will be people who will like it and people who won’t like it, and people who will suffer.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Sports

We've spoken to them, obviously, we need to rely a little bit on the national sporting authority in the country to support it. If it doesn't happen in Monza and they want to support Imola, we'd be happy to be in Imola.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Sports

We are talking to them all the time. We can have a race there but where they are suggesting is not where we want to be. We want to be in the main part (of Buenos Aires).

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Sports

I think they’ve done a fantastic job, when I laid it out in the first place I was told I was mad, trying to get the old city and the new city together. It looks like it’s worked alright.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Sports

The minute people tell me what human rights are, then you can have a look at them and see how and when and where it applies. Do any of you know what human rights are ? .

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Sports

I think everybody seems to be happy. Doesn’t seem to be any big problem there.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Sports

I don’t know whether a woman would physically be able to drive an F1 car quickly, and they wouldn’t be taken seriously.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Sports

We're looking at all these things, which would be for next year obviously, we've made a big enough muck-up to do that for this year so we must not do that again.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Sports

They can say what they like can't they ? They can't do anything, they can give an opinion. Everyone has got an opinion. Really their discussions are with their team and the team has got a voice.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Sports

I am going to be talking to them (Las Vegas promoters) in another 10 minutes' (time), it’s possible that there could be an event there.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Sports

If you're going to try and explain it to the public properly, it's not just a case of 'Okay, the guy was the last one, bye-bye', we'll have to deal with it. I've told the FIA this and asked them what they'd like to do with it but the bottom line is there's not a lot they can do with it because we do all the timekeeping.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Sports

My guys who do the timing said: 'Mr E, we don't want to be put in the position because we don't think we can get it done properly in time.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Sports

I think there’s lots of things we can do and will be doing, what people needed was a bit of a shake up. I seem to be the only person that has thought we should do something in Formula One, to wake everybody up a little bit. And maybe that’s what’s happened.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Sports

I've said before that I don't much like democracy. Nothing gets done, i do quite like David Cameron. I didn't think I would, but he has done what he thinks is best for Britain in the European Union negotiations.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Sports

I respect that, but I want us to leave Europe. It doesn't make any difference to my business. It doesn't make any difference to anyone here. I know what we give European Union, but not what European Union gives us back.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Sports

There's a lot of teams that if somebody comes along with the right cheque, they would sell, not because they want to, but because commercially they probably think it would be the right thing to do.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Sports

The bottom line is simple: in the end, the major shareholder really doesn't want to sell. That's really the truth of things, people keep tempting him. And one day maybe...at the moment, there's people that may be doing a little more than in the past. But I think it will be difficult to get him to say yes.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Sports

He's got a contract so he can hardly be set aside. And I can't imagine a team would want to get rid of one of their best assets.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Sports

If I'd have been (Red Bull owner Dietrich) Mateschitz, I'd have stopped. And I'm pleased that he didn't.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Sports

They( the cheaper engines) will probably have more power and use more fuel. It means I suppose that there would be regulation changes, which have already been anticipated for 2017 so there's nothing new.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Company News

They somehow... made a commitment to Ron that he had a veto and he doesn't want Red Bull, ron has said definitely not, as far as he’s concerned. I don’t know whether his veto will stand up legally.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Sports

You'd have thought they'd have made up their mind before now, when I spoke to the president (of Renault), he said they would make an announcement in December.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Sports

In defense of Red Bull, and (principal) Christian Horner in particular, the reason they canceled their agreement with Renault was so they could do the deal which they thought they'd done with Mercedes.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Sports

I don't think he should ever have stepped down, and I don't think he should have ever been challenged.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Sports

You can understand the position with both Ferrari and Mercedes. If they happen to give Red Bull the same sort of engine that they have, they will show up the people that are supplying the engines, i don’t want them to stop. I honestly think any of the engine suppliers would be OK for them.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Sports

They wanted the same sort of deal as Mercedes and some money. So we tried to work it out. We got a calculator and worked out what nine years would be, what we've done for them is not anything that we need to do, or had to, but we've done it to try and be helpful and keep Renault in Formula One. Our agreement is with Renault and not with Lotus.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Sports

It's strange that a company as large as Renault are taking such a long time to make a decision, to be honest with you, they've been waiting for us to make a contribution to give them a reason to do something, which we've done two weeks ago. So I don't know.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Sports

They don't have to beg (for food) any more because we've looked after them. It's not nice for the team. We've done all we can do, plus, let's hope now that somebody else does something.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Sports

Apparently Renault are going to take over Lotus. Apparently. This is what has been foreseen. Whether it will be completed, I don't know, if they don't complete it (the takeover) by Monday or put some money in soon... unless Renault come to the party, it won't happen.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Sports

In business in general there is no reason not to have women as CEOs of companies, including Formula One Management Ltd, the problem is that most women do not wish to take the responsibility of being held responsible for a big company.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on CNN 4 years ago World

We’ve talked about it. Maybe in 2017 -- So you know you can book your tickets for the next 10 years.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Sports

We will wait for the complaint, they all signed contracts. I hope the complaint goes ahead and the competition authorities have enough patience and time to deal with it.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Sports

Donald Mackenzie doesn't want to sell, simple as that, donald Mackenzie loves Formula One, loves Formula One.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Sports

I could work with anybody, it doesn't make any difference to me. Dieter Hahn lost the case so why should I be upset with Dieter Hahn ? If Dieter Hahn were here now, we'd probably be having dinner tonight.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Sports

I have no idea whether any of these people have got closer with this, but CVC is in the business of buying and selling companies.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Mergers & Acquisitions

He wasn't offered a position. It was in discussion but...that's it, i don't know whether he was going to get offered a position or not but at the time he couldn't say 'yes, I'm going to be whatever'.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Company News

I am a huge Lewis fan because he is a super promoter of the sport.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Sports

Slowly but surely what I predicted about Europe is happening, what I said 10 years ago is that it would soon become a third world economy.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Sports

We should have never ever, ever allowed Manor to do what they’ve done. It’s our fault. I predicted this would happen, they had no intention of racing in Australia. Zero. They couldn’t have raced if someone had gone there with a machine gun and put it to their head.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Sports

We would do everything to stop them fading away, but in the end the only reason the race won't happen is because they can't afford to run the race.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Sports

We'll have to fund it, i'm in the middle of trying to do something.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Sports

We've got a contract in place (with Hockenheim), we just have to amend the years of the contract. It was alternating with Nuerburgring so we'll just take that out.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Sports

I’m happy here as long as the board are happy with me. When I think I can’t deliver any longer, I shall retire.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Sports

Ferrari was very disappointing, getting lost somewhere, fernando (Alonso) got a little bit like Sebastian halfway through, so I'm a little disappointed in him, too.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Sports

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