Statistically after six months, if an Indigenous or non-Indigenous person has come off welfare, even long-term welfare, and has stuck in that's job for six months, then they've really broken in their own psychology the welfare reliance mentality. They're up on their own two feet.

Andrew Forrest

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

business brother believe

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

Andrew Forrest

learning education school

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

Andrew Forrest

failing giving-up knows

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

Andrew Forrest

slavery machines world

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

Andrew Forrest

government running needs

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

Andrew Forrest

get-up australia littles

Im never looking at life in terms of legacy.

Andrew Forrest

legacy term

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

Andrew Forrest

young-entrepreneurs feel-good giving

When youre asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.

Andrew Forrest

prime growing-up country

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.

Andrew Forrest

demand return outcomes

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.

Andrew Forrest

culture looks world

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

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

Andrew Forrest

prime rockets trying

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

business bridges dream

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

Andrew Forrest

christian believe jesus

We are determined to ensure that the Australian agricultural industry's future in China is as bright as our mining future.

Andrew Forrest

company-news

I really do think I can make a contribution in helping eliminate the disparity here in Australia and doing my small bit to help eliminate slavery around the world. These are huge issues for our fellow countrymen and our fellows in the world, where slavery is growing at an alarming rate, and it needs to be arrested.

Andrew Forrest

think slavery i-can world

We are not about creating a Forrest dynasty, we're about helping others.

Andrew Forrest

others about creating helping

There are people all over Australia who use their homes as hubs that they travel from, and they encourage their indigenous people to continue to stay there.

Andrew Forrest

stay australia people travel

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

Andrew Forrest

give just mining chance