Andrew Forrest famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

This is the welfare generation, and that is incredibly sad. That will be judged in history as being far worse, I believe, than the stolen generation, because we are literally losing thousands and thousands of our indigenous brothers and sisters to the effects of welfare â€“ drugs, gunja, low morale, alcoholism. I see it everyday and it can stop. The solution is education, training and a guaranteed opportunity.
-- Andrew Forrest

#Brother #Believe #Opportunity
Get out of bed, go to school, stick at school. Make it happen for yourself because those opportunities are waiting.
-- Andrew Forrest

#School #Opportunity #Waiting
If you know that something is true and just, and you give up, thats when you fail.
-- Andrew Forrest

#Giving Up #Giving #Failing
Australia has always encouraged the little bloke to have a go, the Aussie battler to get up.
-- Andrew Forrest

#Australia #Littles #Blokes
Im never looking at life in terms of legacy.
-- Andrew Forrest

#Legacy #Term
You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.
-- Andrew Forrest

#Machines #World #Slavery
I would say to young entrepreneurs and budding philanthropists - are you giving to feel good or do good?
-- Andrew Forrest

#Giving #Entrepreneur #Feel Good
When youre asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.
-- Andrew Forrest

#Country #Growing Up #Prime
The most generous part of your philanthropy could be the time you put in to procure the same results and same outcomes and same returns you demand in business.
-- Andrew Forrest

#Demand #Outcomes #Return
What I would say is governments need assistance to run their organisations more efficiently just like businesses do.
-- Andrew Forrest

#Running #Government #Needs
I dont see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we cant be amongst the most generous, from the grassroots up, nations in the world.
-- Andrew Forrest

#Culture #Looks #World
Id like to see the University of Western Australia and the other four or five universities in Western Australia really excel through having some of the greatest minds in the world attracted to it.
-- Andrew Forrest

#Australia #Mind #World
You don't try and put rockets under prime ministers.
-- Andrew Forrest

#Trying #Rockets #Prime
You remove heavy metals out of the ground and you turn that into tables, and houses and bridges and dreams for people in the developing world. I love doing that.
-- Andrew Forrest

#Dream #Business #Bridges
I dont necessarily go to church every week, but I am a Christian, and I believe in God and Jesus Christ.
-- Andrew Forrest

#Christian #Jesus #Believe

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