You have to hope that your opponents are unlucky. Never only rely on your own luck.

My daughters have strong personalities. I'm close to them but they don't really need me to advise them on how to manage their lives and they don't ask me to do that.

When people want to built new tracks, they want to look at Silverstone. We don't want it built like that. It's quite embarrassing.

Probably when I gave things to Slavica [ Ecclestone], you know the shares of the company, and things like that. And she put it all in trust and the trust sold the shares. Um, would I turn the clock back if I could and so I still owned the company completely? Probably yes. It probably wasn't a good decision, but it was the decision that had to be made. Was I happy that I made it? No.

I'd rather the handshake for somebody that I can trust than a contract. Because you can read the bloody contract - perhaps if you made a little bit of a mistake writing it - in a way to suit you.

I can't remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist.

With [Vladimir] Putin, he says he's going to do something, he gets on it, does it.