In this blog article, we will be taking an in-depth look at the life and career of Australian businessman Andrew Forrest.
Forrest is best known for his work in the mining industry, and is the founder and chairman of Fortescue Metals Group, one of the world’s largest iron ore producers.
He is also a significant philanthropist, and has donated over $400 million to various causes.
In this article, we will be exploring Forrest’s life and career in detail, and will be providing 10 interesting facts about him that you may not know.
Here are 15 Andrew Forrest Quotes
1. “The natural fire of human endeavor and determination burns brightly in the hearts of all people.” – Andrew Forrest
2. “If you know that something is true and just, and you give up, thats when you fail.” – Andrew Forrest
3. “You remove heavy metals out of the ground and you turn that into tables, and houses and bridges and dreams for people in the developing world. I love doing that.” – Andrew Forrest
4. “Get out of bed, go to school, stick at school. Make it happen for yourself because those opportunities are waiting.” – Andrew Forrest
5. “You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.” – Andrew Forrest
6. “‘I look at that (financial markets) and I think it helped but the I think the major thing in developing any large project or company is simple common sense.” – Andrew Forrest
7. “If you throw money and not opportunity, if you throw money instead of training, if you throw money instead of education, then you give them a fairly bedded path to destruction.” – Andrew Forrest
8. “In Chinese calligraphy, the symbol for ‘philanthropy’ has the character for the heart at its centre, perfectly describing that which a civil society is about.” – Andrew Forrest
9. “I haven’t been motivated by wealth, I’ve found in my experience from my friends who are very wealthy that it is a very isolated force.” – Andrew Forrest
10. “Writing a charity cheque on its own doesn’t guarantee a better life for others, but combining it with your leadership definitely will.” – Andrew Forrest
11. “Employment is the only way to the equality of opportunity every just society craves.” – Andrew Forrest
12. “You see the complete hopelessness in the eyes (of enslaved people). It’s like ‘I’m stuck, I will never get help, I am dirt’. Then you know that you can’t rest until you free them.” – Andrew Forrest
13. “When you’re completely defeated in every other direction, you have to go straight ahead.” – Andrew Forrest
14. “‘It doesn’t take binoculars to look far to see our mission is far from complete: Hundreds of millions of people can’t meet their basic needs ‐ or realising anything like their full potential.” – Andrew Forrest
15. “It’s that wonderful adage that if you ever think that a few good people can’t change the world, then indeed it’s the only thing which ever does… that’s how we drive Fortescue very effectively.” – Andrew Forrest