HE learned how to do business the hard way – buying car aerials and selling them from the back of a second-hand van. And Lord Sugar — now worth an estimated £1.2billion — is in no doubt how he would have fared had the show that gained him millions of TV fans been around when he was an entrepreneurial teen. He said: “I was 16 or 17 when I started, and if The Apprentice was around then, I would have won it.” Lord Sugar has filmed the 17th series of the hit BBC business show — but he admits that he had no grand plan for the UK version of the programme when it began.
