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.
From 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.
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.
The only people whose opinions I worry about are my wife, my children, and my employees.
You can't stop people printing what they want to print.
Not everybody needs to go to university; they can get out and start working straight away.
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.'
Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.
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.
There's too much of a culture that exists out there, what I call an expectancy culture, of things being provided.
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