Sourced quotes

• "The banks don't have anything - no rights whatsoever. The banks are shareholders of SLEC, and SLEC has no rights. ... I am the CEO of Formula One Management and Formula One Administration, which runs the business in F1. From this point of view, I own F1."
  • Financial Times. November 23, 2004
  • Bernie Ecclestone responding to the banks holding a trial to determine if he should continue controlling Formula One Holdings and its subsidiares including Formula One Management.

• “The morning after I die. And the first 12 copies go to the Inland Revenue”
  • Financial Times. November 23, 2004
  • Bernie Ecclestone's response from a tongue in cheek interview question that asked: “So when’s your autobiography going to be published, Bernie?”
• "You know, I've got one of these wonderful ideas that women should all be dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances."
  • Bernie Ecclestone, discussing Danica Patrick, the female driver who finished fourth in the 2005 Indianapolis 500 race. (Los Angeles Times, 6/21/05, p. A-18.)

Attributed quotes

• "Waiters are like hookers, never around when you want them."
• "Tell her I'm now in the company of my wife, Slavica, who is much younger, better looking and wealthier than the Queen. Therefore, I'll stay with her."
  • Upon receiving an invitation to meet the Queen
• "They think they've got me by the balls--their hands aren't big enough."
  • In response to the failure of Williams and McLaren to sign the 1998 Concorde Agreement
• "I can't remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist."
• "Why would I rob a train with only two and a half million pounds on it?"
  • Upon being asked if he was involved in the Great Train Robbery of 1963