Frank Lowy Quotes

All I was looking for is to be successful. I had the opportunity with Australia, with what it provided for me economically.
All my life from a young man I have worked very hard and I enjoyed it very much and I was really afraid with what I would do when I no longer had the responsibility.
As a boy I stood at the doorway of our hiding place in Budapest and watched Russian troops fight house by house to liberate the city and therefore rescue us from certain death.
As a child I learned what it meant to be persecuted. But, even then, at the worst of times, I knew there was good in the world.
As a teenager I became a boat person - a refugee - as I made my way to Palestine.
Democracy needs to be nurtured and treated with care.
From morning when I wake up until I go to sleep, I am working. I go to bed and I want to switch off, but the brain doesn't switch off.
I am 84 years old and have not retired because I feel I have something to contribute.
I believe in a big Australia. I am an advocate for an ambitious immigration program.
I did a lot during my lifetime and I think it is time to make a change to my life at a young age of 87.
I don't remember all my successes, but I do remember failures.
I don't think of myself as a hard man, but other people may think otherwise. You know you have obligations to do the best you can for people, for your job, for your shareholders... it all has to be balanced between the hardness and the softness.
I have no fear about the future for retail investors.
I have... been disturbed by the negative tone of the debate over immigration... there is a rising crescendo of opinion from columnists and politicians saying we should reduce our immigration intake.
I knew that Britain and the United States were beacons of freedom and democracy at a time when my life - and Western civilisation itself - was at grave risk.
I wanted to build a family very strongly because I lost my family when I was 15, 14, and I missed the family unit very much.
I was in Australia for many years. And the system there is a two-party system and the government changes from time to time.
I work all the time; whatever I do, I do it, and I don't necessarily look at it as work. You could say the Auschwitz project was work, or the Lowy Institute is work, or Westfield is work, or the football is work. It is life.
If I had stuck to my knitting, I would have had a wonderful career having a delicatessen in Blacktown.
In football, in football clubs, there are many decisions that don't make business sense. Yes, there is always a lot of emotion involved.
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22 October, 1930
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