Business Quotes

I just don’t really get into all that sort of personal negative stuff. My job is to outline some positive plans for the country’s future and perhaps Mr. Howard and the Government don’t like the fact that I’m putting out some positive alternatives. What’s their preference.. for me to be a negative carping opposition leader?

We want a national emissions trading scheme, the Government does not and has rejected one for years. We want to boost the mandatory renewable energies target, the Government has failed to do that. We want a national demand side management strategy for the country to reduce electricity consumption and the Government, up until now, has done very little on that score.

Mr Howard’s problem is for so long he’s been a climate change sceptic, how can he, therefore, put himself to the country as part of a climate change solution for the future.

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

If you don’t have enemies, you don’t have character.

The self-anointed media elite among us believe, somewhat self-servingly, that not only the act, or process of making a profit is positively sinister, but also that the very desire to do so is.

These b**tards who run our country are a bunch of conniving, thieving, smug pricks who need to be brought down and removed and replaced with a whole new system that we control.

I think the biggest frustration about reviews is when they criticize your best bit. And then you go, “What the ****?” I remember when I was a comedian, I’d get a bad review and they’d always fail to say that the audience was dying laughing.

I’m 48. For a while after ‘The Jerk’ (movie) I had a feeling of failure. I was a little scared. First people discover you and they love you. You get big and then you fail. And people are glad that you fail. But I’ve always come back and I’ve started to trust myself.

Reviews for someone like me come in three packages. One is justifiable praise, the second is justifiable criticism, and the third is, “This is only published because he’s a celebrity.”