Andrew Forrest Quotes
101 Andrew Forrest Quotes
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The natural fire of human endeavour and determination, burns brightly in the hearts of all people.
Andrew Forrest
I think that history dictates when there is any new idea, technology always gets its solid detractors…
Andrew Forrest
I haven't been motivated by wealth, I've found in my experience from my friends who are very wealthy that it is a very isolated force.
Andrew Forrest
If you have a vision or a belief or a goal and it’s true… Then it is… one of those rare things you should never, ever give up on.
Andrew Forrest
It’s as simple as understanding the basics.
Andrew Forrest
This is not the time for mourning, this is the time for action!
Andrew Forrest
[On simply giving money to indigenous people and rich kids] If you throw money and not opportunity, if you throw money instead of training, if you throw money instead of education, then you give them a fairly bedded path to destruction.
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.
Andrew Forrest
If you really believe in something, yet you were heavily ridiculed for it, well just cop it.
Andrew Forrest
Every chance I got I still went back to the land.
Andrew Forrest
I loved the bush but knew that I had to carve out my own future. If I was ever going to be able to return to the bush I had to be successful in the city.
Andrew Forrest
[On establishing the laterite nickel industry in Australia] No matter how hard that was, you knew the truth was the world would need laterite nickel.
Andrew Forrest
If you can surround yourself with a team of people who share that absolute determination with you, that fundamental belief in the truth of what you are doing, and the use of what they are achieving, then you create a very powerful force.
Andrew Forrest
It’s that wonderful adage that if you ever think that a few good people can’t change the world, then indeed it’s the only thing which ever does. … that’s how we drive Fortescue very effectively.
Andrew Forrest
The diversity and heritage of all peoples comes richly in Australia.
Andrew Forrest
Have we advanced so much, when it comes to much more serious subjects? Human slavery and trafficking, the shock of most is alive and well in practically every nation on earth.
Andrew Forrest
Slavery and lack of proper employment opportunities is not a developing worlds problem, a developed worlds problem, or a third world problem. It is each and every one of our problems. It flourishes everywhere lack of employment opportunity exists.
Andrew Forrest
[On why slavery exists in practically every nation on earth]Due to insufficient economy, paternalistic welfare driven payments, and most critically low expectations of one person to another.
Andrew Forrest
Lack of proper employment opportunity creates an environment for the possibility of slavery to exist.
Andrew Forrest
The national Australian culture of ‘can do’ and ‘wealth for toil’.
Andrew Forrest
Employment is the only way to the equality of opportunity that every just society craves.
Andrew Forrest
Globally we know that opportunity for proper employment is the only way we can do slave traders out of work.
Andrew Forrest
[On the what contributed to the disconnect between Aboriginal and mainstream Australian cultures] As all of Australia realises that welfare and low expectations of one to the other disconnected our two cultures. It hindered Australia on becoming a richer and more colourful and harmonious community.
Andrew Forrest
[On Generation One] Now over 8,000 indigenous people have crossed over from welfare to employment in the largest single elimination of welfare driven poverty in all of Australian history.
Andrew Forrest
We must connect culturally, before we can meaningfully connect a worker with a job.
Andrew Forrest
We have proven that job specific training produces earnest, capable applicants who offer value on their first day of work. In just three months [of] training.
Andrew Forrest
The overwhelming power of standing on your own two feet, replaces despondency with pride, despair with dynamism, low expectations with confident hope of an independent future. Health and moral improves and the individuals thirst for further education accompanies a new hunger. A new hunger for greater success - disparity becomes a memory.
Andrew Forrest
Replace disparity with employment of empowerment and meet the need for true self respect based on economic independence.
Andrew Forrest
It doesn’t take binoculars to look far to see our mission is far from complete…
Andrew Forrest
In Chinese calligraphy, the symbol for “philanthropy” has the character for the heart at its centre, perfectly describing that which a civil society is about.
Andrew Forrest
Writing a charity cheque on its own doesn’t guarantee a better life for others, but combining it with your leadership definitely will.
Andrew Forrest
Effective generosity is the noblest use of freedom.
Andrew Forrest
In the early days… when we were facing a five billion dollar capital cost…
Andrew Forrest
It’s just that they couldn’t get to the wisdom that energy and the knowledge that people have when they do it day to day.
Andrew Forrest
There’s something really special, when you put forth an idea that might seem stupid, that could cop some criticism, or might meet some resistance and you push through that character hurdle which is yours – and you take that risk, you step out. You take that risk and you put forward an idea as brave or as stupid as it may seem. And we want to acknowledge that guys. We want to say this is fantastic.
Andrew Forrest
We’re a little company in a very large body, but with a passion for each other and a passion for our future with a real sense of ownership.
Andrew Forrest
You wouldn’t do some of these ideas in a normal company… But they’re perfect for Fortescue because of who we are - just an extended large family company.
Andrew Forrest
We think the quality of your ideas and the number of your ideas has been so vast that we’re going to continue…and double what’s available.
Andrew Forrest
We believe that the only way to tackle Australia’s chronic Indigenous welfare problem is through employment.
Andrew Forrest
Attitudes first and guaranteed jobs second.
Andrew Forrest
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