Andrew Forrest
Andrew Forrest
John Andrew Henry Forrest, better known as Andrew Forrest or by his nickname Twiggy Forrest, is a Western Australian mining magnate currently a non-executive chairman and previously the chief executive officer of Fortescue Metals Group...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryAustralia
against change owning skewed taxation
We really need to change taxation policy so that it is not skewed against owning more than one house.
people tend
Wealthy people in Australia tend to give, and give very quietly.
billions lives slowly social thousands trying wasted
Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'
country prime
When you're asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.
brother believe opportunity
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.
running government needs
What I would say is governments need assistance to run their organisations more efficiently just like businesses do.
school opportunity waiting
Get out of bed, go to school, stick at school. Make it happen for yourself because those opportunities are waiting.
giving-up failing knows
If you know that something is true and just, and you give up, thats when you fail.
australia littles get-up
Australia has always encouraged the little bloke to have a go, the Aussie battler to get up.
legacy term
Im never looking at life in terms of legacy.
young-entrepreneurs giving feel-good
I would say to young entrepreneurs and budding philanthropists - are you giving to feel good or do good?
outcomes return demand
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.
looks world culture
I dont see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we cant be amongst the most generous, from the grassroots up, nations in the world.
australia mind 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.