Eike Batista Quotes

#1. If you make it, great. If you miss it, what's there to be afraid of?

Kobe Bryant

#2. No human mother could have shown more unselfish and sacrificing devotion than did this poor, wild brute for the little orphaned waif whom fate had thrown into her keeping. At

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#3. I hope they bury me near a strait man

Groucho Marx

#4. We firmly believe in Trafiguras unparalleled capacity to extract the full value of the Sudeste Superport.

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#5. The worst events always have the thrust of accidents, as if they come out of nowhere. But that's just lack of perspective.

Paula McLain

#6. You cannot exist as a $20 billion company with speculation.

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#7. 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.

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#8. 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.

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#9. 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.

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#10. 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.

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#11. were Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and most other fairy tale "heroines" beautiful but helpless? Why did they always have to be rescued by

Timothy Tocher

#12. Well, I don't know. Mostly I just suck up what life throws my way, stomp on it, and then keep going. I don't dwell much on what I am or how I got this way. It just is. I just am. I'm Max, and whatever form I take, it's good enough for me.

James Patterson

#13. What I learned from my father is to think big.

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#14. I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.

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#15. I only work out because I have high anxiety, and if I don't I tend to ... I say I'm like a border collie. If I don't have something to expend my energy, I chew the furniture. So it just helps me level out so I don't do copious amounts of drugs.

Jake Abel

#16. Nobody is happy alone. To share experiences is always a good thing.

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