Kerry Packer Quotes

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

Tony Greig

#2. 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

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

Kerry Packer

#4. It's very hard to get other countries to give up their weapons when you're busy developing a new one.

John F. Kerry

#5. 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.

Kerry Packer

#6. Life isn't a dress rehearsal

Kerry Packer

#7. London gives birth to amazing talent but is rubbish at helping maintain it.

Hussein Chalayan

#8. 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

#9. History is an alternating series of frying pans and fires.

Peter Esterhazy

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

Kerry Packer

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

Kerry Packer

#12. You can almost taste the pressure now.

Vin Scully

#13. The worst thing that can happen to a socialist is to have his country ruled by socialists who are not his friends.

Ludwig Von Mises

#14. Never complain, never explain personal motto of

Kerry Packer

#15. Is the economy going to collapse if we continue down this road? Yes. Should Americans be self-reliant? Yes. Absolutely ... I think loving our neighbors is being prepared to give them food. Loving our neighbors is being prepared to protect them.

Matt Shea

#16. 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

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

Kerry Packer

#18. Any moment now ... " The girl [Calypso] stared out at the water.
No magical raft appeared.
"Maybe it got stuck in a traffic," Leo said.

Rick Riordan

#19. To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. (157)

Stephen Batchelor

#20. 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

#21. The pain of loss, moreover, however agonizing, however haunting in memory, quiets imperceptibly into acceptance as the currents of active living and of fresh emotions flow over it.

Elizabeth Drew