Frank Packer Quotes
100 Frank Packer Quotes
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[‘Reinstate me on my former status and I’ll resign.’] Sold. [Then later handing him his written resignation saying ‘Following my reinstatement on my former status I now tender my resignation. The resignation will apply immediately.’] That’s all right. See me at two o’clock and I’ll re-engage you.
Frank Packer
[On paying for an employees medical bills or the like when necessary] Is this person a loyal employee? [‘Yes’] Well you fix it. You do the necessary.
Frank Packer
[To Richard Hughes in 1960 when he parted ways to join Rupert Murdoch his young rival] On your way, Judas.
Frank Packer
[On his wife asking the manager at the printing works if they had a container she could use for mixing garden manures and having it delivered.] What the hell do you mean by getting men to do things for my wife for nothing? [‘I charged her a pound for it.’] Oh, did you? Oh well, that’s all right, then. But I won’t have anyone doing anything for nothing. Is that understood?
Frank Packer
Don’t bother about my share. I just wanted to make sure you weren’t rooking me.
Frank Packer
My, you’re a good poker player, aren’t you.
Frank Packer
The more people I employ, the more people rob me.
Frank Packer
That’s all my employees do. They take my pens and pencils, pinch my copy paper. They all rob me.
Frank Packer
How much do those flash globes you’re using cost?
Frank Packer
[On an employee not being able to keep the money received for syndication copy to overseas newspapers. Feeling that you have to produce your biro when the ink ran dry in order to get a new one. Frank Packer abhors waste] I’m paying your fares and your hotel bills. You wouldn’t be doing syndication work otherwise. We have shareholders, you know.
Frank Packer
[On one reporter wearing a loud check sports coat instead of a suit and tie] That’s a fine coat, Jim, a particularly fine coat… don’t wear it in the bloody office.
Frank Packer
Didn’t I sack you? Aren’t you going to leave? [‘Not unless you make it official, Boss’] I thought I did – about four times… Oh, it’s too much trouble sacking you every Monday night. Go and buy a couple of lottery tickets…
Frank Packer
The Bulletin used to be a radical magazine and, perhaps, should become one again.
Frank Packer
My long hours of work are by force of necessity rather than desire.
Frank Packer
[On an employee who had been sick for six months and who checked in on him every week] Your only duty… is to get well.
Frank Packer
I am interested in girls and horses, what are you interested in?
Frank Packer
Don’t worry, my boy, if you work hard you could not be in a safer place.
Frank Packer
[In 1970 on the difficulty of an overseas country winning the America’s cup in America] You’ve got to take your crew over there and keep them away for eight or nine weeks, and the boys get homesick, love sick… And their wives get bitchy about them being away so long, whereas the America crew [can go home].
Frank Packer
Only one person says whether or not we go home – me. We are not going. We’ll stay and try to win the next four races straight.
Frank Packer
[On The Australian Women’s Weekly -‘Did you at the time you started it in 1933 – think it would ever be such an outstanding success?’] No I didn’t. [‘Why has it been so successful?’] Because it’s a good paper. [‘Why do you say that?’] Because it is.
Frank Packer
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