Anthony Pratt Quotes
101 Anthony Pratt Quotes
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Let’s ship her in a Visy box.
Anthony Pratt
What the world needs now is a Visy box.
Anthony Pratt
We don’t need to chop the trees down… All that’s garbage is golden.
Anthony Pratt
[In September 2008] We hope to use the billion dollars to double our recycling operations from 3,000 to 6,000 American jobs in order to combat climate change. We think that recycling is a very important but underestimated weapon against climate change.
Anthony Pratt
Did you know that there is twice as much carbon emissions from land fills as there is from global aviation worldwide?… If we can stop that stuff going into the land fills to recycle it instead then every ton we recycle will save a ton carbon going into the atmosphere.
Anthony Pratt
Manufacturers need to adapt and look to develop world leading products.
Anthony Pratt
I not talking so much about smokestack industries but more high-tech knowledge, high-value manufacturing with sophisticated process controls. That sort of manufacturing doesn’t rely on cheap labour quite as much.
Anthony Pratt
[In November 2011 on bankrolling a revolutionary $300 million project to turn household garbage into energy.] This will be a very big leap from anything we have ever done. It is not completely new in the sense it is being done in dribs and drabs around the world. But no one has put it together quite this way before. So it would be a big project of national importance.
Anthony Pratt
[In November 2011] A grant would help bring it to fruition a lot faster.
Anthony Pratt
[In November 2011] It will create about 3,000 jobs.
Anthony Pratt
[In November 2011] What makes this different is that this is a step up in complexity in that no one in Australia and few around the world have been able to do: to turn municipal solid waste – real garbage – into energy. So this would be a first for Australia to do that, at a really big scale.
Anthony Pratt
[In November 2011] My grandfather started Visy as a box manufacturer back in 1948. My father integrated the company back into paper mills. This is the next integration into what feeds the mills and that is energy. It’s part of the same supply chain and part of the next evolution.
Anthony Pratt
[In 2003 on not discussing his personal wealth.] It’s not polite to say in the South.
Anthony Pratt
Going to live in America and colonising it as a place of business for the family has helped me emerge from that shadow.
Anthony Pratt
[In 2003] We mine the urban forests. We turn garbage into gold.
Anthony Pratt
[On Muhammad Ali] He’s a great man and it’s an honor to know him. He’s the greatest boxer and we want to be the greatest boxer.
Anthony Pratt
I’m an entertainer. I’m not a singer.
Anthony Pratt
[In 2003 on his monthly parties with guests selected from the company’s customers.] If you don’t buy boxes, you ain’t coming.
Anthony Pratt
[In 2003 on not speculating in the stock market.] That’s paper shuffling. We like to make things from paper.
Anthony Pratt
[On his favourite movie] Forrest Gump – Life is like a box of chocolates.
Anthony Pratt
My daddy always told me, life is like a box.
Anthony Pratt
Bonus
[On Anthony Pratt] Anthony has done wonders to build a billion-dollar business here. I know because I have been at it a lot longer than him.
Rupert Murdoch
I know Anthony has absolutely slaved to build this great business. It’s a great thing for America, but it’s also a great thing for Australia.
Rupert Murdoch
[On Anthony Pratt] A true professional. [He] Spent his life in the industry, so he knows what he is doing. He has shown an ability to attract, motivate and retain an outstanding group of people.
Alan Moss
[On whether he found Anthony Pratt quirky.] No, I wouldn’t say that actually. To me, he is just a very sensible businessman. In terms of relative styles, and I’ve seen plenty over my time, I wouldn’t put him in that category.
Alan Moss
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