Ivan Glasenberg Quotes

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.

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.

When we first invested in Colombia, we were buying a lot of coal from Colombia. We were dealing with them daily. I knew their guys at the port, I knew their guys at the mine, I had a feel of the country.

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.

We're talking to every third-party supplier every day of the week, and our traders are talking to them and buying products from them. When we're doing that, we see opportunities which no one else sees.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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