Frank Lowy Quotes

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Frank Lowy

Profession : Businessman

Birth : October 22, 1930

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

Frank Lowy

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.

Frank Lowy

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

Frank Lowy

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.

Frank Lowy

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

Frank Lowy

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.

Frank Lowy

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.

Frank Lowy

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.

Frank Lowy

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.

Frank Lowy

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.

Frank Lowy

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

Frank Lowy

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

Frank Lowy

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.

Frank Lowy

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.

Frank Lowy

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

Frank Lowy

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

Frank Lowy

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.

Frank Lowy

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.

Frank Lowy

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

Frank Lowy

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.

Frank Lowy