Alan Bond Quotes
120 Alan Bond Quotes
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I believe that too many people give up too easily in life. When you hit a brick wall you must work at getting over it or around it.
Alan Bond
It’s amazing what humans can achieve if the personal motivation is there.
Alan Bond
Few people ever reach anywhere near their upper level of excellence in life.
Alan Bond
[On calling the Kalgoorlie Super Pit] We’ll mine it for 100 years, and when we’ve finished Kalgoorlie could be the greatest resort town in Western Australia because the pit will become a massive lake where you can sail yachts. That’s how big this will be when we’re finished. It will be fantastic.
Alan Bond
We had been punched on the nose and knocked down more than once, but then we got up and kept coming back.
Alan Bond
Generally everyone’s lifestyle is proportionate to their wealth, and believe me happiness does not necessarily come in the same proportion.
Alan Bond
Anyone who’s ever been in a restaurant knows how difficult it is to operate successfully. When you own it the level of pleasure you might previously have enjoyed as a patrol quickly disappears.
Alan Bond
It was like being in a battle where for every rocket you fired at the enemy you copped ten rockets back.
Alan Bond
[To Rupert Murdoch] I suggested that seeing we were both losing money we should get together.
Alan Bond
At the time I was doing a quite a bit of business in Queensland. I owned Castlemaine-Tooheys, was in the process of setting up Bond University, and was establishing the export scheme for Queensland Nickel.
Alan Bond
[On Bond Media] It was the ugly and rapid rise in interest rates that was beginning to cripple this media arm because of the debt load, including the lack of the $200 million that we were due to pay Kerry Packer as final settlement on the Nine Network deal.
Alan Bond
It was not as bad a deal for us as everybody was led to believe, but there is no doubt that Kerry got the deal of a lifetime.
Alan Bond
It was a purchase based more on emotion than commonsense.
Alan Bond
Business for me… was never going to be all smooth sailing – that’s just how it is in the business world. But I had no idea how tough things were going to become.
Alan Bond
[On owning and paying $52 million in 1987 for Van Gogh’s ‘Irises’.] I could feel Van Gogh’s brush strokes, beautiful brush strokes that captured a freedom of expression, even though the subject was flowers. The strength of the colours was magnificent, and the thickness of his paint on the canvas was quite astounding – he seemed to trowel it on, and that’s what created the aura that the painting holds for me.
Alan Bond
I’ve always believed that you should put back into the community what you get out of it…
Alan Bond
It’s good to give.
Alan Bond
The bank just looked after their own position, and not me, a client who had dealt with them in huge amounts for 20 years. I relied on the bank’s assurances and was badly burnt.
Alan Bond
Once the tide turns against you in this league, even when you are being wronged, it’s very hard to turn it back.
Alan Bond
It could be said that in 1987 we bit off too much.
Alan Bond
[On a government inquiry] It was just like someone coming over your back fence to have a look around because they felt like it, and then making assumptions about what they think they saw, and what the neighbours told them.
Alan Bond
While we were struggling to keep the wolves from the door the dogs were barking, grabbing every opportunity they could to make the headlines and state that we were stripping Bell Resources.
Alan Bond
Once things do start exploding all around you your brain explodes with them. It doesn’t stop – you just keep tossing things over and over in your mind. I continually asked myself: ‘What could I have done. Why did I let it happen?’ The anguish of failure is not a pleasant experience.
Alan Bond
I am a fatalist. Events don’t ‘just happen’ – they happen for a reason.
Alan Bond
I think the level of devastation is proportionate to the walk of life you come from. I’d been dragged down from the top to the lowest possible level by the system itself.
Alan Bond
I was again paying a price for profile.
Alan Bond
Never before had the old adage ‘bad news sells newspapers, good news doesn’t’ been so true.
Alan Bond
The tall poppy syndrome was alive and well.
Alan Bond
It was as if my world ended there and then – three years in jail for what had been a perfectly legal transaction over a painting.
Alan Bond
I decided there were opportunities to help the prison officers and some of the inmates to get a better understanding of the world of business, finance and wealth creation. I also helped the officers with the structure of their superannuation funds.
Alan Bond
At least no one could take away the fact that in 1978 I was named Australian of the Year.
Alan Bond
To ‘do a Skase’ was the coward’s way out.
Alan Bond
I thought about Laurie Connell, Robert Holmes a Court and Peter Beckwith – they all died a time of high stress in their lives.
Alan Bond
[Whilst in Casuarina prison] I worked on the principle that if I could help one soul get out of such a dastardly place then I would feel better for having helped.
Alan Bond
[On being released from prison] The only thing I knew for sure about my future was that I never wanted to be the head of a large corporation ever again.
Alan Bond
I now look on life very differently – I have new values and meanings. While many doors have been shut it is astonishing how many new ones have opened.
Alan Bond
I am a better businessman today because I am now able to temper my views of the business world with my more recent experiences – I’ve got the yin and the yang, the experience of success and failure.
Alan Bond
I have never been driven by money and I’m not driven by it now.
Alan Bond
You really only regret the things you don’t do.
Alan Bond
Today, when I look back on every amazing aspect of my life, I know that my greatest pride rests with my family, what they have achieved and how they have stuck by me. They are my greatest achievement, my pride and joy.
Alan Bond
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