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

When you live for others’ opinions, you are dead. I don’t want to live thinking about how I’ll be remembered.

People need to feel very good about their achievements. They get pride in what they are doing.

Choose the right employees and then set them loose.

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 like to pride myself on thinking pretty long term, but not that long term.

If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.

If you will be faithful to a few things, you will someday become the ruler over many things.

The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.

Without big battles, you won’t have big victories.

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do.

Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.