Julio Lobo Quotes
18 quotes from Julio Lobo — Cuban sugar magnate known as 'the Sugar King.' Controlled the world's sugar market before Castro's revolution seized hi….
“To have Croesus-like wealth is referred to be as rich as Julio Lobo.”
“He was known as the king of sugar, not just of Havana but of the world.”
“Lobo captures the period's contradictions.”
“He swam the Mississippi as a young man.”
“He fenced in duels.”
“He survived assassin's bullets.”
“He was put against the wall to be shot but pardoned at the last moment.”
“He courted movie stars, raised a family, and made and then lost 2 fortunes.”
“He became the chief authority in any debate surrounding the world's sweetener par excellence.”
“He was capable of buying and reselling 350,000 tons of the product under agreements he signed without the slightest hesitation.”
“Trade union leader Eusebio Mujal called him 'public enemy number one.”
“I back my judgment with good, fast, accurate information, courage and cash.”
“I am the market. I buy and sell sugar any time, day or night.”
“I came to see Lobo as a kind of machine with which to explore the pre-revolutionary period.”
“Chico, I was born naked, I will die naked, and some of my happiest moments have been naked.”
“I'm a capitalist and you're a communist, and I've been a capitalist all my life.”
“Whatever little success I have had in my life especially in sugar, I owe in great measure to the education which I received here many years ago.”
“When you read Cuban history books, you see his name always as a footnote to some large deal, some large sugar crop, but his life is sort of shadowy and mysterious. And in time, I came to see Lobo as a kind of machine with which to explore the pre-revolutionary period.”
