Kerry Stokes Quotes
116 Kerry Stokes Quotes
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If you want to be successful get up early work longer, work harder.
Kerry Stokes
Every problem brings its own opportunity.
Kerry Stokes
It’s much easier to do business with someone when you look them in the eye and say, ‘This is what we’re going to do…’
Kerry Stokes
If having two seats on a board gives us control, the others must be pretty namby-pamby people.
Kerry Stokes
Ethics or simple honesty is the building blokes upon which our whole society is based…
Kerry Stokes
To think that you could buy everything you ever wanted would take the fun out of things.
Kerry Stokes
Journalism has often been the catalyst for change in the world, much of it positive.
Kerry Stokes
We may be the lucky country. But we've also made our own luck.
Kerry Stokes
People who have an opinion, have the right to express that opinion.
Kerry Stokes
Diversity is a cornerstone of our country. It represents our "Australian-ness".
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We have no choice but to make it work… And can it work I think so.
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Everything happens for a purpose.
Kerry Stokes
If you have a difficult message to deliver in any circumstance, it's always best to do it first up-front…
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It's the hard times that make it better.
Kerry Stokes
I don't wish hardship on anybody.
Kerry Stokes
The most important adage and the only adage is, the customer comes first, whatever the business, the customer comes first.
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The only way of making money is for effort.
Kerry Stokes
The only time I've ever lost money is when I've purposely said, ‘I'm doing this to make money.’
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I have made wealth when I've actually made a contribution to something, when I've done something I thought I could do better than somebody else or have done something better than somebody else does it
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At the end of the day, anybody who thinks there's a reward for nothing, ends up losing.
Kerry Stokes
[On selling a 50% of his media interests to KKR for $3.3 billion in November 2006] KKR is an astute and experienced investor in media businesses.
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[On his new chief executive David Leckie] I’ve told David I’m not going to fire him.
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[On his adopted parents giving away money as devout Catholics] I wished we hadn’t given it away to the bloody causes and kept some for ourselves at times, but that was the way it was.
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[On his adopted mother] Irene was always wanting to help the poor missionaries. Well, I’m not sure the missionaries were any worse off than we were at the time.
Kerry Stokes
I don’t think a slap on the hand or a stick on the backside has done anyone any harm.
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At one stage I didn’t have any money so I slept on the streets for a few nights. It wasn’t uncommon in the 1950s and it wasn’t uncommon to be out of money. There wasn’t anywhere to go to get money.
Kerry Stokes
I hate profile photos… I know about photography – I’m really good at it.
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I have a fear of public speaking. It’s very hard work. Words are not my skill and because they’re not my skill, I have to work doubly hard.
Kerry Stokes
Close your eyes. Close them for a moment and picture a word. I can’t do that. I close my eyes and there’s nothing there. I try to think of a word and it’s just blank. I handle pictures very well, I handle diagrams very well but words are something I can’t handle. Writing is difficult. I’ve always had problems with fine motor skills and writing is a poor skill of mine.
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The times were different, the laws were different.
Kerry Stokes
Normal fathers are weekend warriors aren’t we?
Kerry Stokes
Arranging business trips around school holidays and that sort of thing just became the norm and it was really a challenge. We didn’t do some things [in media] we could have done and maybe that’s the reason why we didn’t end up going broke like a lot of other people.
Kerry Stokes
I’m a beginning, not an end.
Kerry Stokes
I’m pretty happy with where I’m at – and I mean that more in the psychological side and emotional side than my financial side.
Kerry Stokes
I’m pretty happy where I’m at.
Kerry Stokes
If I wasn’t here tomorrow, things would go on.
Kerry Stokes
At the end of the day there is really no advantage to me in anyone knowing more about me…
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[On playing the underdog card] That’s because I am.
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[On his true wealth on a rich list] I have always been comfortable that no one has been able to assess what I really have.
Kerry Stokes
I ended up in Broadmeadows orphanage – I don’t know how that happened – whether she gave me up for adoption or the church was responsible. Whatever happened she was a single mum.
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