Kerry Stokes
Kerry Stokes
Kerry Matthew Stokes ACis an Australian businessman. He holds business interests in a diverse range of industries including electronic and print media, property, mining, and construction equipment. He is most widely known as the chairman of the Seven Network, one of the largest broadcast repeating corporations in Australia. He was awarded Companion in the General Division of the Order of Australiain recognition of his contributions to Australian business...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth13 September 1940
CountryAustralia
I just decided that I wasn't going to gain anything by going to school, since we couldn't afford it anyway, so I left school very early and went to work and progressively did things.
I'm lucky I had signposts in my life. At important times, I got pointed in the right direction by particular circumstances.
I love Perth. It is my home, and no matter where I am in the world, Perth is where my heart is.
I know about photography - I'm really good at it.
I have always been comfortable that no one has been able to assess what I really have.
I have a fear of public speaking. It's very hard work. Words are not my skill, and because they're not my skill, I have to work doubly hard.
You can choose a direction that will take you into something that isn't going to take you where you want to go, or you can choose another direction which is down the right pathway.
We are pleased to be back in football.
Yes, I may well have done, yes, I did.
If you have a difficult marriage, it's the hard times that make it better. If you have a relationship, it's the hard times that actually make it better, and that goes for life as well.
I've been very lucky because Perth has been very good to me. I've enjoyed my journey and met so many wonderful people.
With WesTrac, you have real people doing real jobs with real problems and real opportunities, and you touch the metal, and it's like being grounded.
You can be involved in media, and you can be involved in all the handbag hurling that goes along with it, and it's a different world.
At one stage, I didn't have any money, so I slept on the streets for a few nights. It wasn't uncommon in the 1950s, and it wasn't uncommon to be out of money. There wasn't anywhere to go to get money.