Andrew Forrest Quotes

Wherever we've gone around the world, we've found quite significant gaps: the holy texts, no matter which one you turn to, has ambiguity in it around slavery. That, we knew, was being used as justification by slavers all over the world.

I happen to be a big believer in home ownership. I'm also a big believer that if someone wants to have a crack at the mining industry in Port Hedland, then they should be able to collect their ... benefits in Port Hedland even though they are from Alice Springs. It should be mobile.

You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.

There are people all over Australia who use their homes as hubs that they travel from, and they encourage their indigenous people to continue to stay there.

We do need an attitude of leadership in our government which demonstrates faith in major population centres outside of Perth.

We really need to change taxation policy so that it is not skewed against owning more than one house.

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.

I'm never looking at life in terms of legacy.

Australia has always encouraged the little bloke to have a go, the Aussie battler to get up.

I don't necessarily go to church every week, but I am a Christian, and I believe in God and Jesus Christ.

I don't see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we can't be amongst the most generous, from the grassroots up, nations in the world.

There's so many politicians who have given politics a pretty poor name ... their actions have been demonstrated to be part of their over-enthusiasm to get reelected.

If you haven't had a few dents in your resume, you haven't tried.

Get out of bed, go to school, stick at school. Make it happen for yourself because those opportunities are waiting.

When you're asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.

I'd like to keep our kids in their schools. I'd like to keep our young men and women in jobs.

Tax can be structured in a way that actually encourages investment in infrastructure and encourages investment in Australia from overseas.

What I would say is governments need assistance to run their organisations more efficiently just like businesses do.

We are not about creating a Forrest dynasty, we're about helping others.

Individuals and communities need to clearly tell government if they want parity for First Australians. Only this will overcome the vested interests of governments and administrators and see these practical, inexpensive solutions for what they are: a way to finally achieve results, with the strength of will from each of us.

If you look hard at it, if you look hard at the bleeding heart attitude to always throw money at issues, throw money at problems, what you're in fact probably saying is you're exercising a prejudicism of low expectations.

My greatest love in life is to develop projects. I just get a huge kick out of that. I've been doing it since ever I could.

Wealthy people in Australia tend to give, and give very quietly.

Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'