I must admit that I didn't choose journalism, I was caught off guard; the profession simply sank its claws into me. It was love at first sight, a sudden passion that has determined a large part of my life.

My grandfather was an exception among Chileans because no man from the middle class up knows how to decipher a manual, nor does he dirty his hands with motor oil—that's what maestros are for; they can improvise ingenious solutions with the most modest resources and a minimum of fuss.

I love watches, for sure. The watch I love the most is Richard Mille because it's part of something that started from zero.

I'm the kind of guy who, if I look inside and they throw me a fastball outside, and it's a strike, I'm going to swing. Everything in the strike zone, I'm going to swing. Doesn't matter if it's a fastball, changeup, breaking ball. If it's in the strike zone and it's something you like, you've got to swing.

The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing.

There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight with the blow, to live an eternity in an hour.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

He who hesitates is last.