Anthony Pratt Quotes
101 Anthony Pratt Quotes (Anthony Joseph Pratt, Visy Industries Quotes, Pratt Industries Quotes)
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I like to do things that other people say can’t be done.
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Business is about playing both pedals and having your fingers on the keys.
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The art of business is always cut and grow, cut and grow.
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I am a builder by nature.
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The most underestimated thing in business is management continuity.
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I have a philosophy that your best people should always be at the very top…
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I like to do things that you need to chip away at.
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Business in the US is war…
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America is a huge market where persistence is very important…
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I did want to go to America to prove myself.
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I’ve always believed it was better to be a baron in your own fiefdom than a lapdog in the palace.
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Business is a passionate enterprise…
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[To his father Richard Pratt over a business decision] I’m the chief executive of this operation, not you!
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I will never voluntarily go public. [Listing Visy on the stock market]
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[In 2011 on what would be one piece of advice for his son Leon] Stay healthy. That is all that matters.
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Nobody really knows the answer to what will happen in the future…
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I think climate change can be solved by engineers.
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I believe in the difference that a man or woman can make at the top of an organization.
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Once you have a really good guy in place at the top, the next most important thing is continuity of management, as opposed to a revolving door.
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[In March 2013 on Ashok Jacob.] Ashok has joined us. I feel very fortunate about that. He is a great addition to the board. Apart from being very smart, he obviously knows a lot about India. It might be important going forward, without giving away what we are going to do
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[In March 2013 on Ashok Jacob] He has been a great friend to me and is a terrific bloke.
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[On the Pratt Family Board] Not a statutory board of directors per se. It is a board of advice. So it is a bit different to a public company in that respect. It meets a few times a year.
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[On John Wheeler taking over as Chief Operating Officer] At the time that we announced John's appointment, we also announced Brian McPheely was going to become the global CEO at a date to be determined. We did it because it was sensible for succession reasons. The day the CEO goes in is the day you plan for the next one. I have a philosophy that your best people should always be at the very top, whether it is in a board or management. I have been grooming Brian for this job since 2009 and the company now has more global aspirations than it ever did.
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[In March 2013 on John Wheeler] John has been great. He has grown the sales and cut the costs. He has done a great job at both.
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[On John Wheeler] He is a tough guy. He is an extraordinarily good thinker, a great executor, a great manager.
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Screwing down costs in procurement has been a very good source of cost improvements. Productivity improvement is always important and a good job has been done on that. And the art of business is always cut and grow, cut and grow.
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[In 2009] My father Richard Pratt was many things to many people. Business leader… environmentalist.
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[On his father Richard Pratt] To me he was simply my hero.
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[On Richard Pratt] The man taught through his actions.
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Richard [Pratt] always said family came first, but work was second. Not third or fourth.
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An immigrant who came to this country with nothing. A four year old polish refugee who couldn’t even speak English until he was five.
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Hard work, determination and vision, helped him to achieve so much…
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He built Australia’s greatest environmental company. My father was a true renaissance man.
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Richard [Pratt] gave more to philanthropic causes, created more jobs, and did more for the environment than just about any Australian.
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[If a person’s greatness is measured by his philanthropic endeavours.] My father was a giant among men.
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He was a great father to all of his children. Always there when needed. Always there to offer advice. Always there when the going got tough.
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Both my mother and father – were and are great parents.
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Even though he’s gone now, Richard [Pratt] will live on for decades – decades to come in his achievements, dreams and lives of his grandchildren.
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Be strong, be honest – work hard. This was my father, this was my hero.
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[In 2011] I want to bring Leon and Lilly up in Australia. At the moment, I spend six weeks in Australia and two weeks in the US and when Leon starts going to school in 18 months or two years, Claudine and I will be permanently based in Australia. They will continue to travel overseas but that will be where we live.
Anthony Pratt
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