62 Quotes by James Packer

We just have to go at 100 miles an hour in all our businesses, be they television broadcasting, be they magazine publishing, be they subscription television, be they online, be they gaming. We just have to go at one hundred miles an hour...

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.

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.

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.

I genuinely believe if we get the chance to do something in Sydney, the people of Australia will win out of that proposal. There will be jobs, taxes, tourism – there’ll be more people coming to Australia looking to spend money and I think that is a good thing.

I’m a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies.

Stop viewing China like it’s the Cold War. Start viewing them as a modern member of the industrialized world.

There is no discussion inside this boardroom to say we’ve got to get into this or that. We look at every growth opportunity on its merits.

You can say on one hand the market is crazy but it’s not 1999. People have had their medicine from overexuberance. I find it really interesting that those two businesses, Yahoo! and Google, which are just online advertising businesses, are valued at more than the media behemoths in America.