You cannot exist as a $20 billion company with speculation.

To be powerful in South America, you have to be transparent and you have to have a very clean reputation. Transparency for me today is a magic word in South America. Power comes from transparency and a track record of execution.

Finding oil is a multidisciplinary science. You need a lot of people - statisticians, engineers, and geologists, of course. And what I have learned in the past 30 years is that I read people better than I read books.

You cannot expect so much freedom in a land of 1.3 billion people.

Nothing cannot exist forever.

Speculation that some mutual funds here would pour 150 billion yen into equities also encouraged some speculators to buy shares in a thin trading session.