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

I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others. Just as I think it's important to run companies well, with a close eye to the bottom line, I think you have to use your entrepreneurial experience to make corporate philanthropy effective.

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

When you live for others' opinions, you are dead.

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

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

It's not a question of arriving and putting in a whole new administration, but instead, arriving and "compacting" things as much as possible, reducing management layers. We want as few management layers as possible, so that executives are very close to the operations. We also don't believe in having big corporate infrastructures.