Robert Friedland Quotes

“I go back to the old days, when we used to do this at the Bayshore hotel, where Howard Hughes used to live.”

“If we're going to change and stop burning coal and stop burning oil, we can't put Africa into poverty. We must maintain economic growth.”

“How do we have an energy transformation and not plunge the world into chaos?”

“The real world value of a Tier 1 mine is much more than an NPV model and NPV modelling is not the only way to model a mine.”

“The markets model great mines at a premium.”

“We're at some kind of astrological moment that we'll work through together.”

“Promoting a stock is like making a movie. You've got to have stars, props, and a good script.”

“Sometimes I say Voisey's Bay is the mine find of the half-century. Sometimes the whole century. It does not really matter. Big is big.”

“In this country, people think a ham sandwich comes from a refrigerator. People that are highly educated and live in urban centers, they go to the refrigerator, they open it up, they take the ham sandwich out of the refrigerator. There's 30 million pigs a month being slaughtered in a river of blood outside Chicago.”

“We have to mine the same amount of copper in the next 18 years as we mined in the last 10,000 years. You people have no idea whatsoever what we're facing. You're dreaming.”

“The energy crisis you're referring to is not a future phenomenon. It's here now! It has arrived. It's arrived because suddenly the world is at war and war has changed everything.”

“He has an IQ that is off the chart and the flow of conversation was exhilarating.”

“Friedland taught Steve the reality distortion field. He was charismatic and a bit of a con man and could bend situations to his very strong will. He was mercurial, sure of himself, a little dictatorial.”

“It was a strange thing to have one of the spiritual people in your young life turn out to be, symbolically and in reality, a gold miner.”