Alan Sugar
Alan Sugar
Alan Michael Sugar, Baron Sugaris an English business magnate, media personality, and political advisor. According to the Sunday Times Rich List, Sugar joined the “billionaire’s club" in 2015 and in 2016 they estimated his fortune at £1.15bn, and ranked him as the 95th richest person in the UK. In 2007, he sold his remaining interest in the consumer electronics company Amstrad, his largest and best-known business venture...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth24 March 1947
CityLondon, England
Market leaders inevitably slip into decline when they tell the people what they want instead of giving the people what they want.
During negotiations nothing is gained by attacking people's comfort zones.
The boring side of business is what makes it work.
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.
As part of this agreement we will sell significant volumes of this new product in the financial year to 30 June 2007.
Although we anticipate a good performance in the current financial year, shareholders should not expect the same level of result as we have reported for the year to 30 June 2005.
Well, there's nothing I've done I'm not proud of. Making money was an interest, but it's never been my god.
I got on a high believing everything I would produce was going to sell at the rate I wanted.
I'm an Englishman. What more can I say?
If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them, too.
In America, everybody thinks they're an entrepreneur. That's the problem. It's not a title that anybody should call oneself.
I've just got an exceptional memory, if I say so myself.
I'm a commercial person, not an academic.
I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents.