Kerry Stokes famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The most important adage and the only adage is, the customer comes first, whatever the business, the customer comes first.
-- Kerry Stokes

#Educational #Important #Firsts
The only way of making money is for effort. The only time I've ever lost money is when I've purposely said, "I'm doing this to make money." And I've actually on three occasions lost significant sums. 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.
-- Kerry Stokes

#Effort #Way #Doe
Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards. And 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," and you understand what you each mean, and you can go away and get it done.
-- Kerry Stokes

#Business #Honesty #Block
If we actually love what we're doing and we go and do what we love, and every day we get up because we're really happy to get up and go and do what we do, you can't actually do that without expression, and art forms part of that mix of expression that makes the whole package of life so enjoyable to be in.
-- Kerry Stokes

#Love #Art #Expression
At the end of the day, anybody who thinks there's a reward for nothing, ends up losing.
-- Kerry Stokes

#Wisdom #Thinking #The End Of The Day

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
All of the factors that make up a quality city - safe streets, high paying jobs, strong neighborhoods, etc. - emanate from a strong educational premise.
This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future.
The search is more important than the destination
Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.
For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it--even of my own music--with the same nuances forever.
Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.
This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.

Kerry Stokes famous quotes

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