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

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.

Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.

The Long Red Road is a story about alcoholism and dysfunction and tragic tale of a man who’s trying to drink himself to death on an Indian reservation in Dakota. It was written for me, so it’s something I would love to do.

Christ not only died for all: He died for each.

You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist.

My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I’m going to believe Jesus instead.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there’s little but an empty cask.

Next generation leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside.