Motsepe Quotes

#1. You could be worth $2 billion today and a half a billion tomorrow. It doesn't take much for this to disappear overnight.

Patrice Motsepe

#2. Abe Krok was a man of integrity who made a unique contribution to Mamelodi Sundowns and to South African football.

Patrice Motsepe

#3. The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.

Patrice Motsepe

#4. People don't know that there were very successful black businessmen in the years of apartheid.

Patrice Motsepe

#5. Daydreams of wealth or women must have given Carolo that faraway look which never left him; sad and silent, he contemplated huge bank balances and voluptuous revels.

Anthony Powell

#6. I've heard people say South Africans are arrogant, that they act no differently from their colonial masters. That needs to change. It's in your business interest as an entrepreneur to form meaningful partnerships. That's how you do well for your shareholders.

Patrice Motsepe

#7. Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind

Bobby Fischer

#8. My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'

Patrice Motsepe

#9. My parents insisted that we should always be respectful, never forget where we come from and that we are part of the challenges facing our people

Patrice Motsepe

#10. I have confidence in mining. I see exciting opportunities in it.

Patrice Motsepe

#11. South Africans are caring, compassionate and loving people.

Patrice Motsepe

#12. All our businesses comprise of the BEST people money can buy. My policy is hire the best and pay them well

Patrice Motsepe

#13. Only in South Africa could you have a change in government without civil war. If there wasn't the depth of love and caring among our people, this would not have happened.

Patrice Motsepe

#14. Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.

Patrice Motsepe

#15. You have to have a globally competitive mining dispensation.

Patrice Motsepe

#16. Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.

Patrice Motsepe

#17. I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air.

Shania Twain

#18. I'm a sinner. I fumble. People must see me as one of them. The things that worry them, must worry me

Patrice Motsepe

#19. The system of creating opportunities for those who were by law excluded, you've got to do that. But you mustn't create a perception that the process is devoid of competitiveness ... devoid of building a world class, sustainable black business community.

Patrice Motsepe

#20. We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do, no matter what happens, then when we have lost our way and do not know where to turn.

William Kingdon Clifford

#21. Alexander looked into the barrel of one of the guns. He blinked.
O God, please look after Tania all alone in the world.

Paullina Simons

#22. In the other room Rateau was looking at the canvas, completely blank, in the center of which Jonas had merely written in very small letters a word that could be made out, but without any certainty as to whether it should be read solitary or solidary.

Albert Camus

#23. Years do not make sages; they only make old men.

Sophie Swetchine

#24. If we continue doing the right things in Africa, we can create a very exciting and competitive global market here.

Patrice Motsepe

#25. One has to set high standards ... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.

Patrice Motsepe