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Alan Sugar
Alan Michael Sugar, Baron Sugar is a British businessman, entrepreneur and television personality.
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business · British business and TV personality (born 1947) · entrepreneur · politician · autobiographer · businessperson · computer scientist · also Alan Sugar, The Lord Sugar, Baron Sugar, Lord Sugar, Sugar
Born 24 March 1947 · Q336520
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so you saw me screaming in a blue-striped shirt with a blue tie and then turning my head and screaming in a pink shirt and a yellow tie, simply so they could obtain this objective. My wife hates that, my kids hate that, and that doesn
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2026· 7 entries
“so you saw me screaming in a blue-striped shirt with a blue tie and then turning my head and screaming in a pink shirt and a yellow tie, simply so they could obtain this objective. My wife hates that, my kids hate that, and that doesn”
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“Not true. Not true. It started off with two journalists from the Daily Telegraph about a year ago. Totally untrue.”
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“s always looking for bright young people, that he”
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“Some of them are quite bleeding bloody miserable, really.”
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“He only ever talks about money. He never talks about the game. I would say there is a big question mark over whether Sugar's heart is in the club and in football. The big question is what he likes more, the business or the football?”
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Yahoo News UK: Alan Sugar brands American Express 'a bunch of idiots' over credit limit
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2023· 1 entry
Sugar had an estimated fortune of £1
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2022· 1 entry
Daily Express: 'Listen scumbag!' Lord Sugar launches furious rant over 'lazy gits' working from home
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2017· 1 entry
Ranked number 1 in the Essex Power 100 list and was named the most powerful person in Essex
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2016· 2 entries
Sugar endorsed the "Remain" campaign for the referendum on membership of the European Union
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Career landmark: Enterprise Champion (2016).
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2015· 3 entries
Sugar had donated £163,827 to Labour since Miliband had become leader in 2010, but on 11 May 2015, four days after the Conservative Party won that year's general election, Sugar announced that he was leaving Labour, expl
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Reported net worth: £1B (as of 2015).
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“s business policies. From 11 May 2015 to 8 October 2017, he sat in the Lords as a non-affiliated peer. Since 9 October 2017, he has sat as a crossbencher. Before the 2016 London mayoral election, Sugar said that he is popular politically, and repeatedly urged the public to not vote for the eventual winner, Labour candidate Sadiq Khan. In 2016, Sugar endorsed the”
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2011· 1 entry
Sugar donated a total of £69,000 to Labour or to leader Ed Miliband's office, but the following year he defied party rules to implore the public to not vote for its candidate for London Mayor, Ken Livingstone
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2010· 1 entry
“What You See Is What You Get: My Autobiography”
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2009· 6 entries
As a Labour peer and was one of the party's biggest donors, but left the party in 2015 and subsequently expressed support for the Conservative Party
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Career landmark: Enterprise Champion (2009–2010).
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Career landmark: member of the House of Lords (2009).
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On 7 June 2009, Sugar sought to clarify the non-political nature of his appointment.
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Sugar appeared in television advertisements for investment bank NS&I and The Learning and Skills Council talking about apprenticeships
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On 20 July 2009, he was made Baron Sugar, of Clapton, in the London Borough of Hackney.
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2008· 1 entry
"These laws are counter-productive for women, that's the bottom line
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2007· 1 entry
Sold his remaining interest in the company in a deal to BSkyB for £125 million
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2001· 1 entry
Was one of Labour's top 50 donors, giving £200,000 to its head office
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Bachelor (2000).
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1998· 1 entry
And began the next season with just three points from their opening three games
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1997· 1 entry
Sugar surprised the footballing world by appointing the relatively unknown Swiss manager Christian Gross
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1994· 1 entry
Sugar financed the transfers of three players of the 1994 FIFA World Cup: Ilie Dumitrescu, Gica Popescu, and Jürgen Klinsmann, who in his first season in English football, was named FWA Footballer of the Year
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1993· 3 entries
And is run by Sugar's son Daniel
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Venables appealed to the high courts for reinstatement
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Amstrad released the PenPad, a PDA, and bought into Betacom and Viglen in order to focus more on telecommunications rather than computers
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1992· 1 entry
Sugar was the only representative of the then "big five" (Arsenal, Everton, Liverpool, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur) who voted in favour of Sky's bid for Premier League television rights
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1991· 2 entries
Followed by the dual management team of Doug Livermore and Ray Clemence in 1992, former Spurs midfielder Osvaldo Ardiles in 1993, and Gerry Francis in 1994
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“Alan Sugar – the Amstrad Story”
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1990· 1 entry
Amstrad entered the gaming market with the GX4000, but it was a commercial failure, largely because there was only a poor selection of games available
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1988· 2 entries
Stewart Alsop II called Sugar and Jack Tramiel "the world's two leading business-as-war entrepreneurs"
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By City University and in 2005 by Brunel University
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1987· 2 entries
“If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them, too.”
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“Pan Am takes good care of you. Marks & Spencer loves you. Securicor cares. I.B.M. says the customer is king. At Amstrad, we want your money!”
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1986· 1 entry
Amstrad bought the rights to the Sinclair computer product line and produced two more ZX Spectrum models in a similar style to their CPC machines
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1985· 1 entry
Sugar had another major breakthrough with the launch of the Amstrad PCW 8256 word processor which retailed at over £300, but was still considerably cheaper than rival machines (such as the Apple Macintosh Plus, which ret
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1980· 1 entry
Amstrad was listed on the London Stock Exchange and during the 1980s Amstrad doubled its profit and market value every year
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1968· 1 entry
Aged 21, Sugar set up Amstrad with £100 of Post Office savings
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1947· 1 entry
Born 1947-03-24.
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