Andrew Forrest Quotes

• 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 – 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, Business, Believe

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• If you know that something is true and just, and you give up, thats when you fail.

  Andrew Forrest

  Giving Up, Failing, Knows

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• I would say to young entrepreneurs and budding philanthropists - are you giving to feel good or do good?

  Andrew Forrest

  Young Entrepreneurs, Giving, Feel Good

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

  Andrew Forrest

  Education, Learning, School

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• 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

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

  Andrew Forrest

  Australia, Littles, Get Up

  "Andrew Forrest, chief executive of Fortescue Metals". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. August 15, 2010.

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

  Andrew Forrest

  Machines, World, Slavery

  "Andrew Forrest: ‘The Issue With Slavery Is That It Is Everywhere’". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2014.

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• Im never looking at life in terms of legacy.

  Andrew Forrest

  Legacy, Term

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• I dont necessarily go to church every week, but I am a Christian, and I believe in God and Jesus Christ.

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  Christian, Jesus, Believe

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

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  Running, Government, Needs

  "Interview with Andrew Forrest, Businessman and Philanthropist". "Lateline" with Emma Alberici, www.abc.net.au. October 23, 2013.

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• 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.

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  Culture, Looks, World

  "Andrew Forrest makes biggest single philanthropic donation in Australian history". "AM" with Caitlyn Gribbin, www.abc.net.au. October 15, 2013.

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• 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

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• 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.

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  Demand, Outcomes, Return

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• 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

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• You don't try and put rockets under prime ministers.

  Andrew Forrest

  Trying, Rockets, Prime

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