Top 40 Anthony Pratt Quotes
#1. All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard.
Glenn T. Seaborg
#2. Accelerated depreciation helps companies bring forward capital-intensive investments by reducing payback time. It's not a hand out. Companies still have to pay the tax, but they simply get to defer it.
Anthony Pratt
#3. Only 10 per cent of food grown in India is processed. So the best way to reduce food waste and maximise calorie delivery is to increase that ratio of processed food to total food.
Anthony Pratt
#4. In my view, helping to feed a hungry world is Australia's greatest responsibility and opportunity in the 21st century.
Anthony Pratt
#5. We are all invited to work together for peace. We shall join hands and minds to work for peace through active nonviolence. We shall help one another, encourage one another and learn from one another how to bring peace to our children and to all.
Mairead Corrigan
#6. Producing clean energy from non-recyclable waste is an important part of my future vision for family company Visy Australia.
Anthony Pratt
#7. New York is the one place in the world that actively encourages rudeness, because that's the only way to get past the fake bag carriers, homeless people, newspaper thieves, Jesus freaks, and everyone else who wants something and isn't afraid to ask for it, repeatedly, at close range.
Gene Doucette
#8. I believe in the difference that a man or woman can make at the top of an organisation. Once you have a really good guy in place at the top, the next most important thing is continuity of management as opposed to a revolving door.
Anthony Pratt
#9. I believe we have the potential to quadruple Australia's food exports to Asia.
Anthony Pratt
#10. The Second Green Revolution, as the world's population grows to over 9 billion by 2050, is the new revolution we have to have to lift food production by another 75 percent.
Anthony Pratt
#11. I like to do things that you need to chip away at.
Anthony Pratt
#12. Mannequins can't dress themselves. Stones go wherever you throw them.
Marty Rubin
#13. It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic.
Felix Morley
#14. My company in the U.S., Pratt Industries U.S.A., has grown from scratch to become a billion-dollar business based on recycling, as well as the largest Australian-owned employer of U.S. citizens.
Anthony Pratt
#15. My faith in the economic potential of the low carbon economy is not an untested prediction.
Anthony Pratt
#16. New Zealand's food and beverage industry is the lynchpin of the country's prosperity. Which may explain why it has concentrated their governments' minds.
Anthony Pratt
#18. Food manufacturing is an ideal candidate for targeted accelerated depreciation because the food industry, our biggest industry, creates significant flow-on benefits.
Anthony Pratt
#19. My vision for Visy Tumut is not only to keep our position as an example of world's sustainable manufacturing, but to build on it.
Anthony Pratt
#20. We can bring together rich natural resources, innovative research and development, smart investors, and risk-taking farming and manufacturing entrepreneurs.
Anthony Pratt
#21. I love Australia. I love the people there; they are fantastic. The business opportunities are endless.
Anthony Pratt
#22. We were in recycling before recycling was cool.
Anthony Pratt
#23. Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful world ... the Irish peasant must not on any account know that the Socialist workers are his sole allies in Europe.
Friedrich Engels
#24. I have a dream that in the not-too-distant future, Visy Tumut will spend around $100 m to expand our clean energy generation here and take in additional waste forest wood to generate clean renewable energy and sell it into the power grid.
Anthony Pratt
#25. Australia is a resource-rich nation. We have been good at exploiting our minerals base and agricultural sector for exports.
Anthony Pratt
#26. When we sell paper in Asia, we sell them things such as their corrugator rolls as well as paper.
Anthony Pratt
#27. High-profile industry disruptions such as steel or car plant closures attract much media and political attention.
Anthony Pratt
#28. When a raw food becomes processed food, it can be best valued, protected, stored, and safely delivered to customers.
Anthony Pratt
#29. Ultimately, innovation depends on the people with advanced skills who have the ideas, and on the business risk-takers willing to back them.
Anthony Pratt
#30. I am very proud of being Jewish. I went to a Jewish school all my life.
Anthony Pratt
#31. One loves and is loved in great pain, and one is alive in the experience of it. It is the walking-death quality of depression that I have tried to eliminate from my life;
Andrew Solomon
#32. The juice was delicious, with the fresh bite and lingering umami of freshly squeezed oranges.
Chloe Neill
#33. Writing a full length novel is very much like driving a car with snakes in your pants - you just never know what's going to happen. -- James Scott Bell
Sue Ward Drake
#34. Sometimes, I think that I love life so much, that I make death jealous ...
Lionel Suggs
#35. My policy in America is, 'Steady growth is forever.'
Anthony Pratt
#36. I'm proud we have built a billion-dollar business from scratch here in the US. It has been done very much in a slow, building way. It wasn't an instant type of thing. America is a huge market where persistence is very important, and I am a builder by nature.
Anthony Pratt
#37. Private is our DNA, in my DNA. It enables us to make decisions for the long term.
Anthony Pratt
#38. I am free to write what I want and my readers are free to think what they can
Marlowe Sr.
#39. I think Australia is just a great place to bring up a family.
Anthony Pratt
#40. Animals in general have always been my passion, project, crusade - whatever you want to call it! The ocean is such a huge, beautiful thing that I feel like we all take for granted.
Aimee Teegarden