“Money is not a goal. The goal is to make companies grow, develop, be competitive, be in different areas, be efficient to have a great human team inside the company.”

You cannot have people in your organization who are pessimists. They take you to mediocrity.

Work well done is not only a responsibility to yourselves and society; it is also an emotional need.

You cannot live without doing something.

Any personal crisis – you have to use it to get stronger.

Mistakes are normal and human. Make them small, accept them, correct them, and forget them.

If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.

When we decide to do something, we do it quickly.

The only way you finish with poverty is with jobs.

It’s important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.

Do not allow negative feelings and emotions to control your mind. Emotional harm does not come from others; it is conceived and developed within ourselves.

Think of an athlete. He may be very good in his own house, but not as good as his neighbors. You have to go beyond your home. You have to go worldwide.

All businesses make mistakes. The trick is to avoid large ones.

The combination of non-profit organizations like the foundations and profit businesses can work together in some areas.

I’ve always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others.

Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets, any sound investment will eventually pay off.

All times are good times for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so.

Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it’s a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.

Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.

Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

Even the solitude, I’ve actually grown to quite like. I do like the feeling of getting into my little car, knowing for the next couple of hours I’ll have only the roads, the big gray sky and my daydreams for company.