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“I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies.”
-- James Packer

#Thinking #Technology #Scary
“Business is good right now, but now my personal life is a disaster.”
-- James Packer

#Life Is #Disaster #Revealing
“People can make a real difference. One person at a time, one job at a time, one life at a time.”
-- James Packer

#Jobs #Real #Differences
“This perception that the only people that come to Crown are helpless victims and we are just sitting there preying on them, you know, I reject that absolutely and that does upset me. And I think that that is, you know, that is a spin line from the latte set, which is completely wrong.”
-- James Packer

#Thinking #People #Upset
“I think it may be even a bigger story than the internet. You know, it's like saying, 'how big a deal is the internet?' The Chinese middle-class is going to change the world.”
-- James Packer

#Thinking #Class #Chinese
“The last thing I think I am is perfect. I'm just trying to do the best job I can. I'm trying to be the best father I can to my kids. I'm trying to do the best job I can running my business.”
-- James Packer

#Running #Jobs #Father
“I genuinely believe if we get the chance to do something in Sydney, the people of Australia will win out of that proposal. There will be jobs, taxes, tourism - there'll be more people coming to Australia looking to spend money and I think that is a good thing.”
-- James Packer

#Jobs #Believe #Winning
“Marry me. You can have all the money and credit cards you want, and the glory of being Mrs Packer, but you've got to let me do what I want.”
-- James Packer

#Cards #Credit #Want
“I am here to tell you my father was right. You are a raging f..kwit. Now f..k off.”
-- James Packer

#Father #Rage #Revealing
“I got plenty of guesses wrong on things in the past as well. I don't want to pretend I have some great insight... But when the global financial crisis came along in 2008 it was scary times if you were in the middle of building $5 billion buildings. It wasn't perfect... I think that I am the luckiest person in Australia.”
-- James Packer

#Past #Thinking #Australia
“I do 90 minutes of exercise a day, and obviously I have the lap band... (it's) about being fitter, happier and more active.' But he admitted: 'I'm an idiot. I (still) smoke and do all those things I shouldn't do.”
-- James Packer

#Exercise #Lap #Band
“I'm an ambitious person. I mean, if I did that... I would self-destruct, in the sense that the decadence would be too strong an attraction for me. Whether that be in the form of gambling, fast cars, alcohol, drugs, whatever it happens to be... I think the lure of that lifestyle would be too strong.”
-- James Packer

#Strong #Mean #Thinking
“I may be a f..kwit but I'm not a liar. I was a believer.”
-- James Packer

#Liars #May #Revealing
“If I sat back and decided to sell the product of my father and my grandfather's work, like a leech, you know I wouldn't be able to look at myself in the mirror... I want to be able to look at my father in 10 years' time and say, 'I'm proud of you, and you should be proud of me.'”
-- James Packer

#Father #Mirrors #Years
“There is no discussion inside this boardroom to say we've got to get into this or that. We look at every growth opportunity on its merits.”
-- James Packer

#Opportunity #Growth #Looks
“We have recognized that the world is changing. How your children are behaving, how their friends are behaving. What they consume and what they watch.”
-- James Packer

#Children #Watches #World
“The history of media is the market share of advertising dollars has followed.. albeit with a lag.”
-- James Packer

#Media #Dollars #Lag
“You can say on one hand the market is crazy but it's not 1999. People have had their medicine from overexuberance. I find it really interesting that those two businesses, Yahoo! and Google, which are just online advertising businesses, are valued at more than the media behemoths in America.”
-- James Packer

#Crazy #Media #Hands
“When you look at what Star (casino) has done for Sydney over the last fifteen years.. I don't think it has done a lot. When you look at what Crown (his casino) has done for Melbourne, I think it has done an enormous amount. And there's all sorts of statistics and figures and facts that can back those things up.”
-- James Packer

#Stars #Thinking #Years
“We need to make sure we have the best people we can in our operations, and that is a constant challenge. There is always room to improve.”
-- James Packer

#People #Challenges #Needs
“We just have to go at 100 miles an hour in all our businesses, be they television broadcasting, be they magazine publishing, be they subscription television, be they online, be they gaming. We just have to go at one hundred miles an hour..”
-- James Packer

#Magazines #Television #Hours
“Stop viewing China like it's the Cold War. Start viewing them as a modern member of the industrialized world.”
-- James Packer

#War #Chinese #World
“In a perfect world we don't want to be overly dependent on any single asset or be so dependent on the cycle or where one asset is the bulk of this company.”
-- James Packer

#Business #Perfect #World
“My father used to think the word 'legend' was tossed around far too often. I want to say today that in the opinion of his family, my father was a legend.”
-- James Packer

#Father #Thinking #Want
“New management at Nine has launched a concerted attack on its cost base in order to restore margins through eliminating waste, improving efficiency and lowering programming costs.”
-- James Packer

#Order #Cost #Nine

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