Anthony Pratt Quotes

I believe in the difference that a man or woman can make at the top of an organisation. Once you have a really good guy in place at the top, the next most important thing is continuity of management as opposed to a revolving door.

I like to do things that you need to chip away at.

Ultimately, innovation depends on the people with advanced skills who have the ideas, and on the business risk-takers willing to back them.

Producing clean energy from non-recyclable waste is an important part of my future vision for family company Visy Australia.

I love Australia. I love the people there; they are fantastic. The business opportunities are endless.

When we sell paper in Asia, we sell them things such as their corrugator rolls as well as paper.

I'm proud we have built a billion-dollar business from scratch here in the US. It has been done very much in a slow, building way. It wasn't an instant type of thing. America is a huge market where persistence is very important, and I am a builder by nature.

High-profile industry disruptions such as steel or car plant closures attract much media and political attention.

I believe we have the potential to quadruple Australia's food exports to Asia.

Food manufacturing is an ideal candidate for targeted accelerated depreciation because the food industry, our biggest industry, creates significant flow-on benefits.

I am very proud of being Jewish. I went to a Jewish school all my life.

We were in recycling before recycling was cool.

Accelerated depreciation helps companies bring forward capital-intensive investments by reducing payback time. It's not a hand out. Companies still have to pay the tax, but they simply get to defer it.

My policy in America is, 'Steady growth is forever.'

Private is our DNA, in my DNA. It enables us to make decisions for the long term.

We can bring together rich natural resources, innovative research and development, smart investors, and risk-taking farming and manufacturing entrepreneurs.

I think Australia is just a great place to bring up a family.

New Zealand's food and beverage industry is the lynchpin of the country's prosperity. Which may explain why it has concentrated their governments' minds.

I have a dream that in the not-too-distant future, Visy Tumut will spend around $100 m to expand our clean energy generation here and take in additional waste forest wood to generate clean renewable energy and sell it into the power grid.

When a raw food becomes processed food, it can be best valued, protected, stored, and safely delivered to customers.