Eike Quotes

#1. I didn't go out looking for fights as a kid, but if it was necessary, I'd fight. Fighting was a daily thing where we lived.

Suzanne Vega

#2. Don't 'Syd' me. You've lied to me. You've hid things from me. How dare you talk to me like we're still friends, like we ever mattered to you at all?--Sydney Field

Megan Maldonado

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

Eike Batista

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

Eike Batista

#5. 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

#6. Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin.

Ryan Reynolds

#7. Loving you meant loving every part of you, the good and the bad, the easy and the hard.

Tara Sivec

#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.

Eike Batista

#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.

Eike Batista

#10. Even fools are right sometimes.

Winston Churchill

#11. It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.

Stanley Milgram

#12. He who comes first, eats first.

Eike Of Repgow

#13. the OGX exec, told a story about how Eike stayed home sick from work once. He spent the day in bed. The next day when he showed up at the office, he said, "You're all fucked. I didn't sleep well, and I wrote up twenty-seven new business ideas that we need to get cracking on right away." Eike

Alex Cuadros

#14. 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

#15. No matter how exotic or seemingly different another man is, there's always some reflection of self in another male.

Jack Donovan

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

Eike Batista

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

Eike Batista

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

Eike Batista

#19. I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much for reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.

Anne Tyler