Top 44 Quotes & Sayings by Frank Lowy

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.

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 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.

If I had stuck to my knitting, I would have had a wonderful career having a delicatessen in Blacktown.

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.

The loss of my father was the most traumatic event in my life - I can't forget the pain.

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 don't remember all my successes, but I do remember failures.

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.

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.

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 you've got to test the envelope, find out what are your abilities and if you falter, pick yourself up and test it again. Otherwise, what is it all about, you know?

Democracy needs to be nurtured and treated with care.

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.

When I was a lone soldier I didn't have a penny with me. Everybody was eating hummus with tehina and ate falafel, and I couldn't buy it. I was a little hungry, but I managed.

I am 84 years old and have not retired because I feel I have something to contribute.

All I was looking for is to be successful. I had the opportunity with Australia, with what it provided for me economically.

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.

It was very frustrating when I was president of Hakoah. You could not make any headway. We couldn't attract the public because it was an ethnic game. Australians were not interested.

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.

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.

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.

I was in Australia for many years. And the system there is a two-party system and the government changes from time to time.

As a teenager I became a boat person - a refugee - as I made my way to Palestine.

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.

Money is misunderstood. The fact is if you want to be successful - the money will follow you. If you are a doctor, something else will follow you. If you are successful, there is an accompaniment. If your goal is just to make money, you won't succeed. Money is a commodity to use, not to be dictated by.

The word 'no' is not for me. I don't hear it. You always have to try again and again.

Life has its ups and downs, but you can only look forward.

I have no fear about the future for retail investors.

I believe in a big Australia. I am an advocate for an ambitious immigration program.

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.

My family are big philanthropists, but not at putting big money into sport. Today sport is professional. It has to support itself or it won't exist. It cannot depend on a few wealthy people making donations.

So many times I wanted to go to Auschwitz, but I couldn't take up the courage to go there.

To imagine a better life for yourself and your family and to leave behind all that is familiar requires a special kind of courage.

Invincible is never how I felt, but optimistic... yes.

For every mountain there is another one. The big question is if you reach the top of the mountain, what then? What do you do then? I suppose you die.

I learned to value the small transactions as well as the large.

Never give up! People don't understand how persistent you have to be. You come up against an obstacle and you have to find a way of moving forward. You take detours, navigate between the obstacles and make it happen. Unless you are very strong and convinced you can succeed, you will be swept away.

I don't work for nothing. I'm entitled to get paid.

The philosophy I shared... was one of ambition - ambition to succeed, ambition to grow, ambition to move forward - backed up by hard work.

don't talk about legacy. I have a job to do, and I'm doing it. And I'm not expecting a legacy and I'm not expecting to get pride from some legacy, I'm doing a job that I believe needs to be done. I am willing to do it for the time, and I am not looking for some kind of an accolade or whatever. I don't consider myself anything special. I work hard.

Money is misunderstood. The fact is if you want to be successful - the money will follow you. If you are a doctor, something else will follow you. If you are successful there is an accompaniment. If your goal is just to make money you won't succeed. Money is a commodity to use, not to be dictated by.