num_pages: 657
description: From a Hackney council estate to the House of Lords this is the extraordinary story of one of our greatest entrepreneurs.Alan Sugar was born in 1947 and brought up on a council estate in Clapton in Hackney. As a kid he watched his dad struggle to support the family never knowing from one week to the next if he'd have a job. It had a huge impact on him fuelling a drive to succeed that was to earn him a sizeable personal fortune. Now he describes his amazing journey from schoolboy enterprises like making and selling his own ginger beer to setting up his own company at nineteen; from Amstrad's groundbreaking ventures in hi-fi and computers which made him the darling of the stock exchange to the dark days when he nearly lost it all; from his pioneering deal with Rupert Murdoch to his boardroom battles at Tottenham Hotspur FC.In this compelling autobiography he takes us into the world of The Apprentice  and describes his appointment as advisor to the government and elevation to the peerage. Like the man himself What You See Is What You Get is forthright funny and sometimes controversial.
language: English
title: What You See Is What You Get: My Autobiography
publisher: Pan Macmillan