Top 23 Batista Quotes
#1. Batista does look pretty mad.
Triple H
#2. I want to put you all at ease. We will tolerate no guerrillas in the casinos or the swimming pools!" Fulgencio Batista as Dictator of Cuba, page 228 "The Exciting Story of Cuba.
Hank Bracker
#3. It's not so much about what the morning brings; it's what you bring to the morning
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#4. Czar, you're the smartest man I know, and I respect you in every way, but that the dumbest thing I have ever heard. You leave your girl a note pinned to the bed, and you're gone for 5 years. I can't wait to meet this woman who stood by your ass for 5 years without one real word from you
Christine Feehan
#5. Nobody is happy alone. To share experiences is always a good thing.
Eike Batista
#6. I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.
Eike Batista
#8. What I learned from my father is to think big.
Eike Batista
#9. Finding oil is a multidisciplinary science. You need a lot of people - statisticians, engineers, and geologists, of course. And what I have learned in the past 30 years is that I read people better than I read books.
Eike Batista
#11. Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust, and in a sense it is. But failing to do anything about a score of drunks or a hundred vagrants may destroy an entire community.
James Q. Wilson
#12. Kickin', ass takin' names, cashing checks, and breakin necks, the champ is here.
John Cena
#13. If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
Richard Dawkins
#14. I was educated to think maybe Brazil works, maybe it doesn't. But I decided I am going to make this country work for my children. I am investing all my effort now in making Brazil a great country.
Eike Batista
#15. Before doing stand-up, I thought acting was easy - it's not easy. It's a hard life. It's easy in its own way, you just stand there and talk. But there is a difference between people who can do it well and people who can't.
Jim Jefferies
#16. Thinking together is more important than thinking alike
Johnny Moscato
#17. To be powerful in South America, you have to be transparent and you have to have a very clean reputation. Transparency for me today is a magic word in South America. Power comes from transparency and a track record of execution.
Eike Batista
#18. Here you start by selecting a barrier. If you bet "Touch" and the price of the asset "touches" (meaning it is equal to or passes through) that barrier at any time up until expiration you win. Or select "No Touch" and you win if the price of the asset never touches the barrier until expiration time.
Jose Manuel Moreira Batista
#19. Don't think you are unstoppable or foolproof. Don't think that the only way your business will work is through perfection. Don't aim for perfection. Aim for success.
Eike Batista
#20. You cannot exist as a $20 billion company with speculation.
Eike Batista
#21. We firmly believe in Trafiguras unparalleled capacity to extract the full value of the Sudeste Superport.
Eike Batista
#22. He had beautiful manners. Which, if you ask me, was mostly a question of saying nothing, to anyone, ever.
Anne Enright
#23. Sometimes, it's like you know what people think: You know what they're thinking, and you know it's wrong. All you want to do if change their mind, but you can't.
Jerry Stahl