Batista Quotes & Sayings

We firmly believe in Trafiguras unparalleled capacity to extract the full value of the Sudeste Superport. — Eike Batista

Fatigue was a drug as well as a poison, and Stahr apparently derived some rare almost physical pleasure from working lightheaded with weariness. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Never be arrogant or abrasive. Treat your opponent respectfully if they really and truly believe they are right. — Jane Goodall

To what extent did Castro at this point conceal secret communist purposes? He later said that he hid radical views in order to hold the anti-Batista coalition together, and this was probably true. But, though a radical, there is no conclusive evidence that he was then a Communist or even a Marxist-Leninist. Whatever he later became, he began as a romantic, left-wing nationalist - in his own phrase, a "utopian Socialist." He had tried to read Das Kapital at the University of Havana but, according to his own account, bogged down on page 370. — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

What I learned from my father is to think big. — Eike Batista

Do not except anything as love without truth because love and truth have always been best friends. — Shannon L. Alder

To be powerful in South America, you have to be transparent and you have to have a very clean reputation. Transparency for me today is a magic word in South America. Power comes from transparency and a track record of execution. — Eike Batista

I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here. — Eike Batista

Don't think you are unstoppable or foolproof. Don't think that the only way your business will work is through perfection. Don't aim for perfection. Aim for success. — Eike Batista

I want to put you all at ease. We will tolerate no guerrillas in the casinos or the swimming pools!" Fulgencio Batista as Dictator of Cuba, page 228 "The Exciting Story of Cuba. — Hank Bracker

Or is it this: To feed on the acorns and grass of knowledge, and for the sake of truth to suffer hunger in one's soul? — Friedrich Nietzsche

But take heart: For every phalanx of nerds who die there are always a few who succeed. Not long after that horrific murder, a whole pack of revolutionary nerds ran aground on a sandbar on the southeast coast of Cuba. Yes, it was Fidel and Revolutionary Crew, back for a rematch against Batista. Of the eight-two revolutionaries who splashed ashore, only twenty-two survived to celebrate the New Year, including one book-loving argentino. A bloodbath, with Batista's forces executing even those who surrendered. But these twenty-two, it would prove, were enough. — Junot Diaz

You cannot exist as a $20 billion company with speculation. — Eike Batista

Quite often I'll turn on the television and something like Sound of Music will be on or Victor/Victoria and I might watch a moment or two. But I don't actually sit down and say I'm going to watch one of my movies. — Julie Andrews

Finding oil is a multidisciplinary science. You need a lot of people - statisticians, engineers, and geologists, of course. And what I have learned in the past 30 years is that I read people better than I read books. — Eike Batista

Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal. — Matt Taibbi

I was educated to think maybe Brazil works, maybe it doesn't. But I decided I am going to make this country work for my children. I am investing all my effort now in making Brazil a great country. — Eike Batista

Here you start by selecting a barrier. If you bet "Touch" and the price of the asset "touches" (meaning it is equal to or passes through) that barrier at any time up until expiration you win. Or select "No Touch" and you win if the price of the asset never touches the barrier until expiration time. — Jose Manuel Moreira Batista

I fear the many faces, many personalities in me. Sometimes I fail to understand my self and become deceived by my various selves. — Ama H. Vanniarachchy

Nobody is happy alone. To share experiences is always a good thing. — Eike Batista

On January 12, on a firing range located in a small valley called San Juan, at the end of the island in the province of Oriente, hundreds of soldiers from the defeated army of Batista had been lined up in a trench knee-deep and more than fifty yards long. Their hands were tied behind their backs, and they were machine-gunned there where they stood. Then with bulldozers the trenches were turned into mass graves. There had been no trial of any kind for those men. — Armando Valladares

Batista does look pretty mad. — Triple H