42 Quotes by Ana Patricia Botin

I would love it if you became a Santander customer.

We are going to make people who do some things with Santander into loyal customers who bank with us every day. This is what will allow us to compete in a world where banking customers have more and more choice. If we don't do this, then we won't grow in the next decade.

We're a boring retail and commercial bank.

If the government is funding itself at 2 per cent, you know, how much are you going to pay savers if you want to lend money at a cheaper rate? People have the incentive to build a factory or open new stores. It is a trade-off.

I consider myself to be quite persuasive when I want.

Bright graduates will either set up their own companies or come and work for us or a consulting firm or government. But going to work for a small company if you are really good? No way.

We are a challenger bank; let me say that once, twice, and three times if necessary because people still sometimes think of us as being very big.

Discretion is the most important thing for a banker. That is the philosophy of the family... I mean, of the bank.

The thing that really sticks - and when you talk to entrepreneurs, they say the same - is just thinking about the next day, the next week.