Robert Friedland's Interview At The 2023 Qatar Economic Forum
In May 2023, Billionaire mining entrepreneur Robert Friedland delivered some of his best stuff at the Qatar Economic Forum in conversation with Bloomberg's Erik Schatzker.
Robert Friedland when asked why the West remains woefully behind China in mining and natural resource development:
“The Chinese don’t really use a net present value model because they have 1.3 billion people to feed for the next 1,000 years.... more societies are going to have to think like the Chinese.”
Friedland was at his very best in the 2023 Qatar interview and he uncorked some choice lines:
“I recently interviewed 55 billionaires to see if anyone put their pants on two legs at a time, jumping into their pants. I have not found one that can do that yet….. we can’t get to a new world in energy without depending on hydrocarbons and nuclear power.”
“We really need to cooperate as a species…. we have a multi-polar world all of sudden. If you put ten dogs in a room and put a video camera in there to watch them and leave the room, all ten dogs smell both ends of every dog. We need to get used to each other, we’re all people. I’m very concerned about the militarization of the supply chain. If we start militarizing it that can only lead to war. I think it’s time that all good people stand up together and say it’s time to take a deep breath and stop this downward spiral…. inshallah we’ll have a peaceful world.”
“The metals underpin food, underpin water, underpin agriculture, and in time God willing we’ll find the capital we need, and the intestinal fortitude we need to get it done.”
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