Words matter. These are the best Frank Lowy Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The human being is very resourceful. When you fight for survival, you don’t think much; you just do. If you think too much, you sink.
If I had stuck to my knitting, I would have had a wonderful career having a delicatessen in Blacktown.
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.
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 am 84 years old and have not retired because I feel I have something to contribute.
To imagine a better life for yourself and your family and to leave behind all that is familiar requires a special kind of courage.
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 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 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.
In football, in football clubs, there are many decisions that don’t make business sense. Yes, there is always a lot of emotion involved.
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 believe in a big Australia. I am an advocate for an ambitious immigration program.
We are focusing too much on the problems and forgetting about the opportunities of immigration. Let us learn from our history. Immigration has been great for Australia in the past. I believe it will be great for Australia in the future.
The word ‘no’ is not for me. I don’t hear it. You always have to try again and again.
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.
The game needs to be funded by sponsors, by members, by broadcasters. There needs to be a commercial relationship between the FFA and the people who supply the money so it is a natural alliance. Sport is not a charity.
The loss of my father marked my life. I’m 88 years old and I’m still mourning him because it’s such a drama for me. It was just after my bar mitzvah and it was so tragic. The effect on me, I carry it all my life.
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.
Life has its ups and downs, but you can only look forward.
What is it to enjoy life? Sit at the beach? No. What it is is that you have to do something, you have be productive, make a contribution to the society, to the family, to yourself.
So many times I wanted to go to Auschwitz, but I couldn’t take up the courage to go there.
We need to give the prime minister of the day a chance. If he or she cannot win an election, so be it. But no prime minister can push through the reforms we need if they cannot even finish a term in office.
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.
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.
