Ivan Glasenberg Quotes

It's easy to buy. Prove that you bought at the right time and the right price.

Over two billion people in China and India need commodities to grow their economies and improve their living standards.

You're doing a major merger, you got to hope you didn't get it wrong. That's the view of any CEO.

I've never opened a glass of champagne on any acquisition. Bankers do that.

A lot of deals are done or not done because chief executives are not fully aligned to shareholders.

I'm a CEO of a public company. You have to show decorum.

We always look at opportunities. We are not aggressively looking to buy something.

When the opportunities come, we may not want to buy another nickel asset, but if something comes cheap enough, we're all about return on equity.

Why should I build an asset when I can buy it more cheaply than you can build it?

Many people may say that luck is important, but I think you create your own luck by working hard to ensure you don't miss opportunities.

We're all shareholders. These guys below me, they see the CEO taking it easy, it's their money.

You want to be a trader, come be a trader. The door's open. You want to travel six days a week, you want to travel the world, the door's open.

We work. You don't come here to take life easy. And we all got rich from it, so, you know, there's a benefit from it.

You'll sacrifice a lot of things in the early part of your career to be successful, but to be ahead of your competitors, you have to work hard.

I thought if we could put our hard-working culture as traders into the asset management, it will be a great combination, and we did do that.

I've said I will be CEO as long as my colleagues want me.

It's nice to do an IPO where your investors get value straightaway and the share price pops up; it proves you left something on the table for them.

The trading side of the business means a lot of travel, being out of the office a lot of time.

I stopped focusing on people being different, and I started treating everyone the same way.