James Packer
James Packer
James Douglas Packer is an Australian businessman, investor, and philanthropist...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth8 September 1967
CitySydney, Australia
CountryAustralia
stories
History is His story.
beach want sitting
I prefer to be sitting on the beach, but I can't. I want to be a billionaire.
memories millions
I have a million small memories that will sustain me through life.
want cards credit
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.
business perfect 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.
father mirrors years
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.'
He could be flint-hard, but he could also be soft.
against matter
It doesn't matter what you spend, I would not be up against Rupert when it comes to getting the NRL rights,
war chinese world
Stop viewing China like it's the Cold War. Start viewing them as a modern member of the industrialized world.
beat company divisions grow miss number
One of the rationales is that if you can have a number of divisions then occasionally one of them can miss a beat and the company as a whole can still grow strongly.
people challenges rooms
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.
thinking class chinese
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.
past thinking australia
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.
thinking people upset
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.