Best Kerry Packer Quotes

#1. I don't want to be left behind. In fact, I want to be here before the action starts.

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#2. You only get one Alan Bond in your lifetime. And I've had mine

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#3. The fact that I have entered into IT-related business is proof that businesses have to evolve and keep with time. One has to re-invent continuously.

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#4. Life isn't a dress rehearsal

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#5. I pay the tax I am required to pay, not a penny more, not a penny less. If anybody in this country doesn't minimize their tax, they want their heads read because, as a Government, I can tell you they're not spending it that well that we should be donating extra.

Kerry Packer

#6. Learning's purest form," Jones replied, "is realized by the individual who continues a quest beyond the classroom, fueled by a passion to discern wisdom. Wisdom - genuine truth - holds the key to refining one's thinking.

Andy Andrews

#7. He wasn't very lovable but he was bloody efficient. (Packer talking about Genghis Khan)

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#8. The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

James Russell Lowell

#9. Cricket the world over, I don't think, will ever know how different things would be without Kerry Packer.

Tony Greig

#10. Regardless of what barriers confront you, it is in your power to free yourselves; you have only to want to.

Olympe De Gouges

#11. I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge'.

Kerry Packer

#12. A ship is safe at shore but it's not built for that.

Albert Einstein

#13. The way to thrive is to help others thrive; the way to flourish is to help others flourish; the way to fulfill yourself is to spend yourself.

Cornelius Plantinga

#14. It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

Pablo Picasso

#15. If a British guy saw someone at the wheel of a Rolls- Royce, he'd say 'come the revolution and we'll take that away from you, mate', where the American would say 'one day I'll have one of those, when I have worked hard enough'. It's unfortunate we Australians inherited the British mentality.

Kerry Packer

#16. Never complain, never explain personal motto of

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#17. There is a lot more young Indian entrepreneurs can do if they are given the money. They have the idea, and I would just like to help them realise it.

Kerry Packer

#18. I will always be safe from the random hurricanes of outcome as long as I never forget where I rightfully live.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#19. The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing.

Kerry Packer

#20. As to the meaning of "corporate social responsibility," Friedman and I would agree: If a certain action improves the corporation's bottom line, there's no point in labeling it "socially responsible." It's just good business.

Robert Reich