Jorge Paulo Lemann Quotes

Jorge Paulo Lemann — Brazilian Businessman born on August 26, 1939,

Jorge Paulo Lemann is a Swiss-Brazilian investor. He is ranked as the 26th richest person in the world by Bloomberg Billionaire Index, with an estimated net worth of US$25 billion as of February 2015, is Brazil's richest man and Switzerland's second richest. As of 2015, Forbes Brazil listed Lemann as the top entry for the Richest Brazilians list... (wikipedia)

It takes the same effort to think small than to think big. But to think big frees you from the insignificant details.

The three short years I spent at Harvard, where I lived with excellent people, taught me not only that I must know how to choose my partners but also that choosing excellent partners is a skill you can learn. Obviously, when you spend time with the best, you learn how to choose among them.

I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!'

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

Maybe I was accepted to Harvard only because of my tennis skills, since I definitively had no great academic achievements. I was 17 and only thought about surfing and playing tennis. I had almost never left Rio de Janeiro and had never been to the United States.

Jorge Paulo Lemann Quotes

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