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

The people inside the group need to have some conditions to follow. We have a philosophy of leadership, ideas, and concepts. They need to share that.

Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.

The biggest things in life are not materials.

The Internet is the heart of this new civilization, and telecommunications are the nervous system or circulatory system.

When we face our problems, they disappear. So learn from failure and let success be the silent incentive.

In this new wave of technology, you can’t do it all yourself, you have to form alliances.

I learned from my father that you continue to invest and reinvest in your business – including during crises.

Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.

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.

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

Focus on essentials and try not to get distracted and bogged down by things that don’t add value to the bottom line.

Inertia is in our minds always.

With a good perspective of history, we can have a better understanding of the past and present, and thus a clear vision of the future.

I think entrepreneurs, can think long term and find solutions and go in the way for long term solutions and not short-term.

I don’t believe too much in luck. I believe in circumstances. I believe in work.

Competition makes you better, always, always makes you better, even if the competitor wins.

I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual. And yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.

One thing I teach my children and want everyone to know that even if you happen to be on a pedestal you should have the capacity to turn around and say, ‘I don’t know’. We are scared to go wrong. Downfall is part of life.

By no means could I play at the level of these kids who play in the NHL now but as 50-year-olds go, I feel really good and I feel blessed that I’m still healthy.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

We played in an era where you were taught to hate your opponent. But life changes. I raise my kids differently than my mom and dad raised their kids.

Kids don’t fight in minor hockey anymore. There’s very few fights in junior and college hockey. So growing up, all these guys are not fighting.

When toys are not given to the child, they cry for a moment, but if a child is not given the knowledge of behavior, he then cries for his whole life.

I really wanted to write a book [99: Stories of the Game] on the tradition and history of the league, where kids can pick it up and read it and learn things and say, “Geez, I didn’t know that. That’s pretty cool.”