5 Quotes & Sayings By Alan Sugar

Alan Sugar is a British entrepreneur and television personality. He is also known for his many business ventures, especially those involving the computer industry. In the 1980s he was a co-founder of Amstrad computer company. In 1990 he sold his share in the company to raise capital for a new venture, which turned out to be a consortium of companies known as Orange Telecom Read more

This company, now called EE, is the largest telecoms network operator in Britain and has over 25 million customers. In 2005 he founded Amstrad again as a new company, specifically for manufacturing PC peripherals under the Amstrad brand name. In 2001, Alan Sugar was awarded an honorary doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.

He has been widely reported as being one of the richest people in the UK with a net worth of £1 billion as of 2008.

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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 Alan Sugar
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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. Alan Sugar
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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. Alan Sugar
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I have no patience at all. Alan Sugar