If you want to help the poor and our next generation, make investment, reinvestment and businesses welcome.

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

All industry, not just the mining industry, can get out and give Aboriginal companies a chance.

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

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

Our company was mortgaged to the hilt, and that did restrain us, and it’s why we had to take in partners.

The media these days are not so much interested in saying things truthfully without distortion, without misrepresentation, without ridicule.

Just in any job, if you want to get ahead, take shorter lunch breaks, be happy to stay later, do the work, and finish it off well.

The raw materials that Australia has in abundance will always be critical to world growth.

Do something to make more money yourself – spend less time drinking or smoking and socialising, and more time working.

The land and agricultural industry is the backbone of Australia, and we need to foster the industry that provides our country with so much.

Become one of those people who work hard, invest and build, and at the same time create employment and opportunities for others.

People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Only those who have the courage to fail greatly achieve greatly.

What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet...

The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.