37 Quotes by Gina Rinehart

Roy Hill had to achieve more than 4,000 approvals, permits, and licences and more again for construction. The delays and costs of this were not only humungous and waste of human resources but did nothing to assist productivity.

The business was in a very difficult state when I first took over the company. I walked into a situation where cheques were getting written, popped in drawers, so that when people phoned up, they could honestly say, 'Look, we've signed the cheque. You'll get it ultimately.'

We were pretty cash-strapped for all those years when I took over.

I opposed bad policies like any responsible citizen and business can. The carbon tax and the mining tax were both bad policies that, combined, worked to make Australia more over-regulated and less cost competitive.

I think when you grow up - cement floors, tin roofs, having to amuse yourselves... you know, the importance of work - I think these are benefits that I've had.

They say that if you give your children too much, they don't get the joy out of work. They just want the unearned things to keep falling from the sky.

The raw materials that Australia has in abundance will always be critical to world growth.

The Territory has more than 200 trillion cubic feet of gas: potentially enough gas to power Australia for more than 200 years.

Access to water is an animal welfare issue, yet, unfortunately, governments still make it difficult and costly to obtain water licences and approvals to build and develop new water points.