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
I get angry when people bring derisory actions against me.
You can't stop people printing what they want to print.
During negotiations nothing is gained by attacking people's comfort zones.
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
An entrepreneur is not what you call yourself, it's what someone calls you in recognition of what you've achieved. I call Richard Branson an entrepreneur. Rupert Murdoch called me one. Anybody who stands up and says: 'I'm an entrepreneur' needs shooting. You'll drive people crazy.
The only people whose opinions I worry about are my wife, my children, and my employees.
I don't think too many people would want my job. I'm a bit of a nutter.
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.