Andrew Forrest Quotes
101 Andrew Forrest Quotes
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If philanthropy was celebrated, then we’d have an Australian psyche which would encourage giving of all types, openly and privately.
Andrew Forrest
I have a belief that if someone is going to join you then they need to understand where it is you intend to get [to]…
Andrew Forrest
Tax can be structured in a way that actually encourages investment in infrastructure and encourages investment in Australia from overseas.
Andrew Forrest
Australia has always encouraged the little bloke to have a go, the Aussie battler to get up.
Andrew Forrest
[On the mining industry] It's a really cyclical and high risk industry and you can't have a pure profits tax because profits suddenly disappear for years in the mining sector…
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I think the Government was desperate.
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They thought that all of a sudden the taxation ship was rudderless… Excuse the pun.
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I'm not a political person.
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I love Indigenous people. I can't politicise that whatsoever.
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We often think that we know better.
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[On childhood] I was one of the remote kids.
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The more you get to know indigenous people, the more you love them.
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I just felt like I was leading a pretty useless life if I couldn’t help my mates.
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[On an early mentor who was aboriginal] When I was only three feet tall with a terrible stutter he paid me a compliment. He ruffled the top of my head and said ‘You did a man’s work son’. I was only three feet tall but just that little compliment and him saying ‘You’ve got a good future mate’ that made me feel ten feet tall.
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[On an aboriginal friend who passed away in his forties due to what you would call too much alcohol and hopelessness] He was always my big brother… and I went to his funeral last year. And he was one of a long line of funerals that I’ve been too and I saw the grief around me… And I thought this is not the time for mourning, this is the time for action!
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[On changing the disparity in the indigenous community] We’ve got to stop throwing money and instead throw opportunities.
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[On his friend who died in only his forties and whose brother died in his early twenties] It’s the future of his kids that keeps me awake at night.
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I was just an ex-jackeroo trying to make more in the financial world and corporate world.
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[On simply giving money to Indigenous people] We’re removed that wonderful competitive spirit which has you leap out of bed in the morning and puts the spring in my step.
Andrew Forrest
Once you remove a persons will by making their life welfare driven, and not opportunity driven then you start to sap that life and in the end you breed great resentment. And that is what generation one seeks to break out of.
Andrew Forrest
Good luck to the cynics. Get the cynics off their armchairs and join me and let’s see them really make a difference.
Andrew Forrest
[On Fortescue (FMG) and aboriginal employment] Are we doing enough – no. Are we doing our fair share – yes.
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How do you get aboriginal people believing in themselves?
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I can love the fella, but I can hate his policy.
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[In June 2011] We’re not funding a great big dinosaur called the NBN where we are going to waste a good thirty billion dollars.
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[In June 2011] I’ll happily pay this tax as well no problem, provided of course it doesn’t let multinationals off and just penalize Australians.
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Commodity prices go up and down.
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You’ll excuse the beer I’ve got a dry dusty throat from four days with the people of Alice Springs… and about 3,000 head of cattle.
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[On his role in Alice Springs] To get a very sore backside, riding a horse tailing cattle.
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[On putting on a business suit after coming back from four days of mustering cattle] I had a good scrub, I hope you noticed.
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After four nights in a swag you need a very good scrub - in fact I think I got a paint scrapper and a chisel out.
Andrew Forrest
[On growing up in the bush] In the bush you had a real sense of isolation which if anything pried open personalities which otherwise might have been bent over computers or other things which are very distracting in the city.
Andrew Forrest
I found the bush to be just a welcoming beautiful place. I love the work, I love the isolation. I loved horses, sheep and cattle.
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[As a child] I didn’t understand for a long time that Minderoo [Station] was just a business like thousands of other businesses.
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You kind of felt a real at oneness with the land and the people.
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[On one of his early uncles - John Forrest who was involved in politics who found] A brilliant engineer who was able to push water six hundred miles up a hill. [At the time for about seventy years the longest uphill pipeline in the world.]
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If you really believe in something, yet you were heavily ridiculed for it, well just cop it. Don’t take the mistake… to let it all get to you.
Andrew Forrest
Enjoy yourself and cop the challenge of criticism sweet.
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[On his childhood – The school had 80% aboriginal and 20% Caucasian ] When we couldn’t get a governess we would go to Onslow Primary. Which was really great fun. You know rough and tumble.
Andrew Forrest
I always had the stutter. I grew up with it.
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