Sean Quinn Quotes

#1. If Anglo feels it hasn't done enough damage to me already by taking my money, my company, my reputation, if they want to finish it off by putting me in prison, then so be it - I'll accept that.

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#2. I'm a hard-nosed businessman, that if a company is paying its way, increasing profits for thirty-odd consecutive years, you don't put it into receivership.

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#3. Never in my life did I steal a penny that didn't belong to me.

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#4. I believe that Sean Quinn wouldn't be a man at all if he let someone steal his family's assets.

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#5. The vast majority of debt that Anglo maintains is owed is strenuously disputed. However, I cannot now pay those loans which are due, following Anglo taking control of the Quinn Group of companies, which I and a loyal team spent a lifetime building.

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#6. In 2009 we increased the cash in Quinn Direct as we had in 2008. We increased the cash in it in 2010. The outstanding claims were €20m in March 2010 but Quinn Direct had more business in the U.K. than in Ireland.

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#7. I am not in the business of pointing fingers or making excuses. However, recent history has shown that I, like thousands of others in Ireland, incorrectly relied upon the persons who guided Anglo and who wrongfully sought to portray a 'blue chip' Irish banking sector.

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#8. Let's not forget, it was the government, Department of Finance and Central Bank that decided to unfairly land the taxpayers of this country with unmitigated losses of Anglo and massive legacy issues that would have been expected when nationalising a fraudulent bank.

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#9. I have made mistakes, but I feel that the people who have done things to me - they should be ashamed.

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#10. I no longer own or control the businesses which I have spent my life building up.

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#11. I started off in 1993 with one lorry. I wasn't one of those guys buying a business and gearing it up.

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#12. I wouldn't see myself as a gambler.

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