Ivan Glasenberg Quotes

South Africa, Businessman
January 7, 1957

Ivan Glasenberg is the chief executive officer of Glencore, one of the world's largest commodity trading and mining companies. Glasenberg has or had citizenship of South Africa and Australia. He became a Swiss citizen in 2011. He is also on the boards of mining companies Xstrata plc and Minara Resources Ltd.

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

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

Ivan Glasenberg
- Price
- Bought
- Right Time

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

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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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- Travel
- Door
- Open
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.

Ivan Glasenberg
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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- World
- Cost
- Supply
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.

Ivan Glasenberg

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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- Opportunities
- Return
- Buy
We always look at opportunities. We are not aggressively looking to buy something.

Ivan Glasenberg
- Look
- Opportunities
- Buy