Eike Batista Quotes

Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch of mathematics. Now I agree that the physicist, the chemist, the engineer, and the statistician can never know too much mathematics, but their objectives should be better physics, better chemistry, better engineering, and in the case of statistics, better scientific investigation. Whether in any given study this implies more or less mathematics is incidental.

I'm really not a great businessperson. I understand business, and I understand numbers, but I think what I understand more than that is people... Ultimately, I think businesses fail and people fail because they don't have their act together.

It will be hard work. It's always hard work, and hard work from everybody within the team - technical director, mechanics, drivers, engineers - everyone in the team.

When numbers are being crunched by politicians, axes are usually grinding.

We spend our time bandying statistics about.

We must never let a blizzard of statistics blind us to the real lives and people behind them.

Statistics is the plural of anecdote.

A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.

It is the mark of a greatly educated person to be deeply moved by statistics.

It is easy to lie with statistics. It is hard to tell the truth without it.

The most important resource of counties of the future will be the number of math trained brains.

Regarding managing people, I am lucky to be surrounded by good, smart friends, some of whom own their own companies or have worked in ones and can lend experience.

Satellites record data in different parts of the light spectrum that we can't see. And it's that information that allows satellites to be so powerful in terms of looking at things like vegetation health, finding different kinds of geology that may indicate an oil deposit or some kind of mineralogical deposit that can be mined.

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

I personally think there's going to be a greater demand in 10 years for liberal arts majors than there were for programming majors and maybe even engineering, because when the data is all being spit out for you, options are being spit out for you, you need a different perspective in order to have a different view of the data.

I don't drive by the seat of my pants and happen to win races. I work very hard to interpret the data and drive a certain way. My engineers have confidence in me, and more often than not, when I tell them what I need or what I am feeling with the car, it's right.

Computers can't find the unexpected, but people can when they eyeball the data.

I could care less about statistics. It's all about team success.

I actually spent a lot of time reading about how professional managers work. And how people build bridges.

The best moments are when, together with... you bring information, you bring data to bear in a way that helps illuminate something that you just don't really understand. Even if it doesn't completely clarify it, it just, you know, helps bring it together.

To do things that are as complicated and challenging as spaceflight, you have to have all disciplines represented to get the job done.

Engineers have shown to embody a tremendous amount of leadership skills through the collaborative educational environment.

For me myself, I feel it's always interesting gathering data. I have my team who do that. I think they feed me through specific things that I might find valuable.

Statistics are just a compilation of people's stories put on paper, and legislation is our attempt to address those real challenges for people.

I like to work with people that I find interesting and stimulating artistically, and the field in which they're perceived to work is secondary and not that relevant to me.