Edwin Soeryadjaya Quotes

Edwin Soeryadjaya

Profession : Businessman

Birth : July 17, 1949

If you don't pay bribes, people think you're odd. It's very sad. I cannot say that I'm proud to be an Indonesian. This is one of the most corrupt countries in the world.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

We know our responsibilities to our investors, and one of our challenges has always been preventing foreign investors from thinking that Indonesia is not a good place to invest.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

If you want to remain the best, you have to keep on doing what you are good at.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

We are still looking for opportunities in plantation, in palm oil. When it is bad, you want to buy because, in the long term, I am confident that plantation is a good bet. To me, it is always in demand; there is no substitute yet for palm oil.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

Power plants are an infrastructure backbone that I want to be seriously involved in; this is because the country is rapidly developing and has high demand for electricity.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

Indonesia is a very huge country, geographically and in number of people, and there is still a lot of growth in the income level; It is very easy to assume there is a lot of demand for travel.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

The mandate that I got from my investors is to invest. So far, we are on the right track, and it is the right formula to invest in Indonesia.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

I'm the son of a former billionaire, but I'm just a working man.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

We would be billionaires, but we took responsibility for Summa's failure.

Edwin Soeryadjaya