Mark Bouris Quotes

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I love to observe sport… I spend a lot of time in my garden… I’m a gardener, and I grow my own vegetables.
Mark Bouris

My dad’s Greek and he’s a farmer by background…
Mark Bouris

You’ve got to give yourself an uppercut every now and then and take yourself back to what is basic and what is real.
Mark Bouris

I’ve got Tomatoes in the back yard and I still curse if the worms get it…
Mark Bouris

I don't think I'm ruthless.
Mark Bouris

Marriages ending are complex things.
Mark Bouris

Early in my career I was a chartered accountant and then I worked in a law firm for about seven years. And that's probably when my eyes first opened to some things that I would like to get in my life.
Mark Bouris

Kerry's [Packers] first question to me was - and I won't use the colourful language he used - but he said to me, ‘Son, have you ever lost any money?’" And I answered him truthfully and I said, ‘No.’ He said, ‘Wrong answer.’ And basically, what he was wanting to hear was I had lost money, that I'd redeemed myself and I knew how to go through that process. What's amazing with Kerry, he was an obverse thinker, and you never really knew which way to answer a question. And he knew how to get you that way.
Mark Bouris

I'm not someone who goes to society-type things.
Mark Bouris

In December 2004, I sold Wizard and all its subsidiaries to General Electric Corporation.
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I bought one of the first mobile phones in about 1986, which were like big bricks.
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Fear is the greatest thief of imagination and innovation that exists.
Mark Bouris

You can’t eliminate fear… You can push it back but fear is always knocking on the door.
Mark Bouris

The thing that you need to neutralize fear… is self-belief. If you can conjure up enough self-belief it will neutralize fear.
Mark Bouris

Self belief comes from understanding a topic, having good people around you, and believing not only in yourself but in the thing that you are about to do.
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Every Australian does deserve good financial advice.
Mark Bouris

A disruptive business model is one that does two things: First thing it makes something - a service or product accessible to the mass market and the second thing it does it makes that service or product accessible at a price the market can afford.
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Kerry Packer was my partner for twelve years… One of the things Kerry [Packer] always used to do was to challenge his teams or challenge the people within his teams.
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Sometimes when you look on the table and you clear everything away, the only thing that’s on the table, the only thing that’s on offer on the table for you is a challenge.
Mark Bouris

If there’s one thing I’ve learnt about challenges and that is you have to accept them in order to conquer them.
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