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" A lot of deals are done or not done because chief executives are not fully aligned to shareholders. "
Ivan Glasenberg
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" You're doing a major merger, you got to hope you didn't get it wrong. That's the view of any CEO. "
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" I've said I will be CEO as long as my colleagues want me. "
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" What are we focused on? Return on equity. We don't need these great big tier one assets. I'm very happy with getting tier two, tier three assets; that's what Glencore has been good at. "
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" We're creating new supply for the world, which is key. If we didn't get more tonnes into the system, your next motorcar is going to cost more because the aluminum cost is going to be higher. "
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" It's easy to buy. Prove that you bought at the right time and the right price. "
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" Africa is where commodities are found, so it is vital that Glencore and other miners are there to develop those resources, helping Africa itself to grow at the same time. "
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" I'm a CEO of a public company. You have to show decorum. "
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" I observed a man sourcing candle wax from South America and selling it to Japan. I thought: 'That's unbelievable. Talking on the phone in his office, that man made money moving candle wax from one country to another.' It really interested me. "
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" We want people who work for us to be entrepreneurs. We like them to look at ideas. We like them to chase ideas. We like them to not be what I call a caretaker of an asset. "
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" 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. "
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" Over two billion people in China and India need commodities to grow their economies and improve their living standards. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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You
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" We always look at opportunities. We are not aggressively looking to buy something. "
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" I've never opened a glass of champagne on any acquisition. Bankers do that. "
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Glass
Never
" I stopped focusing on people being different, and I started treating everyone the same way. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" We're all shareholders. These guys below me, they see the CEO taking it easy, it's their money. "
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Me
Money
" The trading side of the business means a lot of travel, being out of the office a lot of time. "
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" 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. "
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" Why should I build an asset when I can buy it more cheaply than you can build it? "
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" 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. "
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