A biography for Alan Sugarhasn’t been written yet.
“We're interested in the mass-merchandising of anything. If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them too”
“You can't stop people printing what they want to print.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents.”
“I have no patience at all.”
“I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.”
“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 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.”
“Not everybody needs to go to university; they can get out and start working straight away.”
“It will take a brave person to cull the benefits system and analyse who deserves and who doesn't.”
“I am tired of hustling.”
“My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker.”
“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've just got an exceptional memory, if I say so myself.”
“Why work when you can fill out a few forms and get paid for doing nothing?”
“In America, everybody thinks they're an entrepreneur. That's the problem. It's not a title that anybody should call oneself.”
“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.”
“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.”