Zitat des Tages von Anthony Pratt:
Ultimately, innovation depends on the people with advanced skills who have the ideas, and on the business risk-takers willing to back them.
I like to do things that you need to chip away at.
My faith in the economic potential of the low carbon economy is not an untested prediction.
I love Australia. I love the people there; they are fantastic. The business opportunities are endless.
My company in the U.S., Pratt Industries U.S.A., has grown from scratch to become a billion-dollar business based on recycling, as well as the largest Australian-owned employer of U.S. citizens.
High-profile industry disruptions such as steel or car plant closures attract much media and political attention.
When we sell paper in Asia, we sell them things such as their corrugator rolls as well as paper.
We can bring together rich natural resources, innovative research and development, smart investors, and risk-taking farming and manufacturing entrepreneurs.
I have a dream that in the not-too-distant future, Visy Tumut will spend around $100 m to expand our clean energy generation here and take in additional waste forest wood to generate clean renewable energy and sell it into the power grid.
In my view, helping to feed a hungry world is Australia's greatest responsibility and opportunity in the 21st century.
I believe we have the potential to quadruple Australia's food exports to Asia.
