NSW: The sayings of Kerry Packer

AAP General News (Australia)
12-27-2005
NSW: The sayings of Kerry Packer





"Strict but magnificent." - On his tough father Sir Frank.



"There is a little bit of the whore in all of us, gentlemen. What is your price?" -
To the Australian Cricket Board in 1976, seeking the right to televise Test matches.



"From now on it is every man for himself and let the devil take the hindmost." - Storming
out of a meeting with ICC members at Lord's in 1977.



"An Alan Bond only happens to you once." - After Mr Bond bought the Channel Nine network
for $1.05 billion in 1987. Packer bought it back three years later for $300 million.



"I've been to the other side, and let me tell you son, there's nothing there." - In
1990 after his heart stopped while playing polo.



"He wasn't very lovable but he was bloody efficient." - On one of his heroes, Genghis Khan.



"If a working class Englishman saw a bloke drive past in a Rolls-Royce, he'd say to
himself 'Come the social revolution and we'll take that away from you, mate'. Whereas
if his American counterpart saw a bloke drive past in a Cadillac he'd say 'One day I'm
going to own one of those'. To my way of thinking the first attitude is wrong. The latter
is right".



"Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer. Reluctantly." - To a federal parliamentary media inquiry,
when asked to state his full name and the capacity in which he appeared.



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