Ana Patricia Botin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life – and maybe even please a few strangers.

  • Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

  • On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.

  • England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.

  • Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the whole world depends even when rejecting it. This is why I do not believe in a Europe unified under the weight of an ideology or of a technocracy that overlooked these differences.

  • By a steady adherence to the Union we may hope, erelong, to become the arbiter of Europe in America, and to be able to incline the balance of European competitions in this part of the world as our interest may dictate.

  • Including the value of natural resources and our social capital in national accounting is a vital step to achieve economic growth that is equitable and sustainable.

  • While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.

  • The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development.

  • A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.

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