My father's vision was to see the Pilbara developed in a way that would benefit his beloved north, and West Australia and he wanted to see Australia become a stronger economy benefiting from the development of our north. His life was spent pursuing that vision.

Gina Rinehart

Categorized in : Father Ambition Australia

There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire. If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain. Do something to make more money yourself - spend less time drinking, or smoking and socializing and more time working.

Gina Rinehart

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

Gina Rinehart

hard-work opportunity people

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

Gina Rinehart

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

Gina Rinehart

more-money drinking smoking

It was very difficult.

Gina Rinehart

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The investment in our mining industry has been very positive for Australia but we need to be doing more if we want, as I do, more revenue for our defence - which I think is under-resourced - our police, our elderly, our hospitals, roads, infrastructure and communication, to be able to repay our debts and enable sustainable job opportunities for existing and future generations.

Gina Rinehart

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This is a truly momentous occasion as we receive the first vessel alongside the Roy Hill wharf and the first of our high grade product is loaded for the steel mills of Asia.

Gina Rinehart

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It really helps me if I think back to what our first families up here went through because, my goodness, they really had very tough times.

Gina Rinehart

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If we didn't have a sustainable agriculture industry, who would be paying the then-missing taxes to support our defence, police, roads, airports, elderly, parks, public sporting facilities and much more?

Gina Rinehart

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Roy Hill had to achieve more than 4,000 approvals, permits, and licences and more again for construction. The delays and costs of this were not only humungous and waste of human resources but did nothing to assist productivity.

Gina Rinehart

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I spent much of my childhood on stations up north, loving that life and with many, many special memories, and so the country holds a very real place in my heart.

Gina Rinehart

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I think my father is nearly perfect. I think he's quite handsome, except a bit fat.

Gina Rinehart

fat think handsome father

I have never met a geologist or leading scientist who believes adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere will have any significant effect on climate change.

Gina Rinehart

will never climate-change change

The evidence is inarguable that Australia is becoming too expensive and too uncompetitive to do export-oriented business. Africans want to work, and its workers are willing to work for less than $2 per day. Such statistics make me worry for this country's future. We are becoming a high-cost and high-risk nation for investment.

Gina Rinehart

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In the U.S. there are many people willing to work on $9 per hour, which is causing Tasmania to lose its famous apple industry and Australia to import more and more of its fruit and food from lower cost countries. In fact, all over Australia there are warning signs of us killing or restricting our own industries.

Gina Rinehart

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

Gina Rinehart

without saying things media

We were pretty cash-strapped for all those years when I took over.

Gina Rinehart

those pretty over years

They say that if you give your children too much, they don't get the joy out of work. They just want the unearned things to keep falling from the sky.

Gina Rinehart

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Dad correctly said to me, 'Gina, you'll rue the day if I let you take your mother's shares for the benefit of the children.' He was right.

Gina Rinehart

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To be able to take the next generation, my daughters and my granddaughters, to better understand and respect the people in the Outback and experience the wonders of our country, would definitely be one of my favourite duties.

Gina Rinehart

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