If I sat back and decided to sell the product of my father and my grandfather's work, like a leech, you know I wouldn't be able to look at myself in the mirror... I want to be able to look at my father in 10 years' time and say, 'I'm proud of you, and you should be proud of me.'

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People can make a real difference. One person at a time, one job at a time, one life at a time.

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I am here to tell you my father was right. You are a raging f..kwit. Now f..k off.

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History is His story.

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I may be a f..kwit but I'm not a liar. I was a believer.

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This perception that the only people that come to Crown are helpless victims and we are just sitting there preying on them, you know, I reject that absolutely and that does upset me. And I think that that is, you know, that is a spin line from the latte set, which is completely wrong.

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I prefer to be sitting on the beach, but I can't. I want to be a billionaire.

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We need to make sure we have the best people we can in our operations, and that is a constant challenge. There is always room to improve.

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I genuinely believe if we get the chance to do something in Sydney, the people of Australia will win out of that proposal. There will be jobs, taxes, tourism - there'll be more people coming to Australia looking to spend money and I think that is a good thing.

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We have recognized that the world is changing. How your children are behaving, how their friends are behaving. What they consume and what they watch.

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Stop viewing China like it's the Cold War. Start viewing them as a modern member of the industrialized world.

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New management at Nine has launched a concerted attack on its cost base in order to restore margins through eliminating waste, improving efficiency and lowering programming costs.

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We just have to go at 100 miles an hour in all our businesses, be they television broadcasting, be they magazine publishing, be they subscription television, be they online, be they gaming. We just have to go at one hundred miles an hour.

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There is no discussion inside this boardroom to say we've got to get into this or that. We look at every growth opportunity on its merits.

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Business is good right now, but now my personal life is a disaster.

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In a perfect world we don't want to be overly dependent on any single asset or be so dependent on the cycle or where one asset is the bulk of this company.

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Marry me. You can have all the money and credit cards you want, and the glory of being Mrs Packer, but you've got to let me do what I want.

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I got plenty of guesses wrong on things in the past as well. I don't want to pretend I have some great insight... But when the global financial crisis came along in 2008 it was scary times if you were in the middle of building $5 billion buildings. It wasn't perfect... I think that I am the luckiest person in Australia.

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The last thing I think I am is perfect. I'm just trying to do the best job I can. I'm trying to be the best father I can to my kids. I'm trying to do the best job I can running my business.

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I think it may be even a bigger story than the internet. You know, it's like saying, 'how big a deal is the internet?' The Chinese middle-class is going to change the world.

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I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies.

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