R M Williams Quotes
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[On his first wife Thelma] My girl was an outback type who could cope. She was content to sleep on the ground, cook on the open fire, nurse her children in the shade of a bough shelter, eat rabbits, carry water and wash her clothes in a four-gallon tin.
R M Williams
[When John Elliott controlled Fosters] I bet John Elliott can't make a glass of beer… [Whereas R M Williams can make his own products.]
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[On his gold mine being wildly successful] I used to stagger down the street to the bank with these bags of gold, a shotgun each side, and thinking I was pretty important.
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What is it that they say about the winter of our discontent? Those were my years of misbehaving. I just had too much money. I was in Paris, London and New York all the time. I had the best of everything, but I was so unhappy
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[On Mao Tse-tung] Was a giant who changed the history of the world. I was in China during the old regime, when it was full of moneylenders and slavery. He changed all that.
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[On being the driving force behind the 1988 opening of the Bicentennial National Trail – the longest wilderness track in the world covering 5,000 kilometres] It seemed important to us that an old drover who walked his cattle a thousand miles or more should be remembered for that achievement.
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[On shovelling horse manure into a wheelbarrow in 1992] If I didn't do this I'd sit back and die. I was a prisoner in my own castle.
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From the outback to the world.
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I've raised nine children, of which I'm very proud, but it's a long struggle to reach, shall we say, financial stability. I've been a bit lucky there.
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My father was a horsemen and had to supply teams to the people who work the agricultural areas, wool and that sort of thing so horses were our life.
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[On growing up] There were blacksmith shops on every corner, something like petrol stations now.
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When you're living in the bush as a child, there's no television or no telephone, there's no neighbours and there's no talk much between people so you do, I suppose, develop to be more an individualist than probably you would now.
R M Williams
We finished up making a pair of boots and they were quite unique, but the fact that they were unique, one piece of leather moulded to make a boot, instead of a lot of pieces, took the imagination of the bush people and they became very popular with the bushmen who liked the idea of bush boots being made by a bushman for bushmen. It took on and, you know, from that there's been a million pairs sold or more, eh?
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[On the durability of R M Williams boots] The point is, it's got to last a long time. That's what the stockmen pay for. We give them a good product.
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Our pioneers lived a slightly, not a slightly, but a great deal different life to what they now have, but we are, or our society is, what our pioneers made us, of course, and we've tried to bring to the remembrance of the future generations the kind of life and the kind of people that made Australia. I think it's very important that we should pass on to our future generations of our own family, if you like, or the rest, the things we've learnt.
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The Australian has a characteristic which is primarily optimistic, I would think.
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I would think that we've got enough faith in the background that our ancestors left us that will make us win in the future.
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People I can trust, people who have the same idea that I have about paying their way and having a bit of fun and the sky is still the limit and trees still grow and the seasons come and go and all of the beautiful things we've got around us, they're still here.
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I'd like to be remembered as somebody who set out to raise a family and pay my debts and stay within all the limits of acceptable society and still make some success.
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If you make something good, people will make a track to your door.
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We give them a good product.
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