Ivan Glasenberg quotes:

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I'm a CEO of a public company. You have to show decorum.

The trading side of the business means a lot of travel, being out of the office a lot of 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.

You're doing a major merger, you got to hope you didn't get it wrong. That's the view of any CEO.

Why should I build an asset when I can buy it more cheaply than you can build it?

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.