ALAN SUGAR

I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents.

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

Not everybody needs to go to university; they can get out and start working straight away.

Among some of the youngsters, I think reality TV has installed that culture into them and inspired a few of them into wanting to be 'TV celebrities.'

I don't like this young crudeness now which is supposed to be comedy on Friday nights.

Why work when you can fill out a few forms and get paid for doing nothing?

When I was a kid, a policeman was someone you looked up to and respected.

I get angry when people bring derisory actions against me.

I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.

You can't stop people printing what they want to print.

Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.

It will take a brave person to cull the benefits system and analyse who deserves and who doesn't.

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.

I like to be a very fair person.

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.

I did not come into football to make money. I had already made millions.

I've just got an exceptional memory, if I say so myself.

You've got to admire Sir Richard Branson. He is a completely different style of businessman to me, but you have got to admire what he has achieved.

There's too much of a culture that exists out there, what I call an expectancy culture, of things being provided.

I am tired of hustling.

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.

I came from a socially deprived background when I was 15, 16 years old, but one thing I knew was one - you don't abuse a policeman, and two - you don't steal things.

The only people whose opinions I worry about are my wife, my children, and my employees.

I like things in their proper places.

In America, everybody thinks they're an entrepreneur. That's the problem. It's not a title that anybody should call oneself.