Kerry Packer Quotes
120 Kerry Packer Quotes
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I have a business proposition I want to put to you. You must give me your solemn oath not to discuss it with anybody, win, lose or draw.
Kerry Packer
Ghengis Khan was not exactly loveable, but I suppose he is my favourite historical character because he was damned efficient.
Kerry Packer
[On governments] They’re there to do things for you, not to you.
Kerry Packer
If you can be right 60 percent of the time, you’ll own the world.
Kerry Packer
You only get one Alan Bond in your life.
Kerry Packer
I want a station to be proud of, a station that is top of the ratings.
Kerry Packer
You get to the top of the [TV] ratings or else you don’t have a job.
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I don’t believe you’re employed to be popular, you’re employed to get a job done…
Kerry Packer
In your own private life you have the right to choose your friends and ignore their weaknesses…
Kerry Packer
[On being asked what he was going to do next soon after selling Channel Nine to Alan Bond for a billion dollars in 1987] Sport, first I’m going to take three years off and get fit. Then I’m going to come back and buy television stations for half the price their new owners just paid for them. Then, son, I’m going to have some fun.
Kerry Packer
[On having a diseased gall bladder and cancerous kidney removed] It brought me up with a jolt. I’m not a ponderer, but the operation made me realise that life isn’t a dress rehearsal.
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[On being told he had destroyed a village] But it’s still there, only an arrant moron would say that.
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I have nothing to say to the ABC… ever. And get your bloody cameras out of there. Take them away. Just leave me alone.
Kerry Packer
[On being approached to sell some newspapers and asking what he wanted for them] Oh no, you came knocking on my door. You tell me what you think they’re worth.
Kerry Packer
Tell you what sport, I’ll spin a coin to see who bats first.
Kerry Packer
Like many other Australian’s, I like to bet.
Kerry Packer
[In 1977] It cost me a lot of money to find out, and it’s something I no longer do. Basically, I don’t bet anymore.
Kerry Packer
I pay whatever tax I am required to pay under the law – not a penny more, not a penny less. The suggestion that I am trying to evade tax – which is what you are putting forward – I find highly offensive.
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I came out of retirement to make sure these things happen and they will happen.
Kerry Packer
[In hospital] I told you I wanted cubes in this, not f*cking crushed ice.
Kerry Packer
[On getting the NSW Premier Nick Greiner to put defibrillator units into ambulances] Look, I’m putting $2.5 million into buying these things. How about you go the other half?
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You’ve had it easy in the past and got your programs cheap, but we’re the new kids on the block, and we’re going to make you pay your fair share.
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[On a proposal to merge channel 7 and channel 10 whilst Kerry owned channel 9] If you think there’s no f*cking difference between number one and number two in a fucking two-station market, then you be f*cking number two.
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What do you f*cking know about it? If I never have to f*cking deal with you again, it’s no skin off my f*cking nose.
Kerry Packer
Press credibility is getting lower and lower. In fact it’s just about at rock bottom… it’s degenerated into a beat-up. The beat-up is what it’s all about. Any story they get, they’re looking to embellish so they can boast how they stuck it to someone…
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Unfortunately, many Australian’s want to pull down anyone who achieves. And journalists are no exception. They have become a law unto themselves.
Kerry Packer
What I think politicians should be doing, if they had any guts, is to introduce a libel system which is punitive. If a journalist has the evidence to prove his allegations, then by all means, let them be printed. But if they’re wrong, then it should be costing their organizations millions, not tens or hundreds of thousands.
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Editors have to be made to realise that if they allow some half-baked story to get into print, they may well be placing their entire organization in jeopardy.
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[In 1991] For fifty years of my life, Fairfax has been competition to me and my family. The idea that I can end up buying 15 percent… amuses me.
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See what that bastard did today? He’s going to go.
Kerry Packer
[On cross media laws] Only a banana republic changes them at the drop of a hat.
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You are either going to have to believe me or call me a liar… I am sick of trying to tell you all, I am not going to run John Fairfax.
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I do not think under the constitution you have the right to do it.
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Am I the only bloke who doesn’t get a cup of tea round here?
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Since I grew up, I would imagine that 10,000 new laws must have been passed through the parliaments of Australia. I do not think it is a much better place…
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The idea of passing a law every time someone blinks is a nonsense… Every time you pass a law you take somebody’s privileges away from them.
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I am telling you… the answer is very clear.
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The only way it can be topped is by political interference.
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My interests are playing polo… I have absolute trust in [Al ‘Chainsaw’] Dunlap.
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I can trust my son.
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