Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Australian businessman Graeme Samuel.
Last updated on April 18, 2025.
Graeme Julian Samuel AC is an Australian businessman. He was the Managing Director and head of the Melbourne office of M&A advisory firm Greenhill Caliburn, and is a member of the Australian National University Council. He previously served as the chairman of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission from 1 July 2003 to 31 July 2011.
If you are given a public responsibility, you have to listen, weigh up all the issues, but ultimately you have to form a view of what you genuinely think is in the public interest... put the public interest above the vested interest.
Each step in life has been another step in an area that was a challenge, that is highly satisfying and that gives you a great sense of pride afterwards.
You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity.