Chris Corrigan
Chris Corrigan
Chris Corriganis an Australian businessman. He was the Managing Director of the Patrick Corporation until it was taken over in 2006...
difficult judgement
It's very difficult for me to make a judgement on that - it's a day-to-day proposition really, isn't it?
buy originally pacific toll
Originally Toll wanted to buy that through Pacific National,
bid build competing crude far serious stop toll
Far from being a serious bid to build an Asian-Pacific colossus, the bid is a crude maneuver to stop Patrick competing with Toll in Australia. Patrick doesn't need Toll.
assets belief confirmed earnings higher last learned lower months quality risk seven toll
Everything we have learned about Toll in the last seven months has confirmed our belief that Toll has lower quality assets and a higher risk earnings profile.
bid both failure strategy toll
The Toll bid was ill-conceived from the outset. It has been a failure of both strategy and execution.
act bid toll
The Toll bid is an act of desperation,
money turns
Now it turns out that this is considerably more money than these ferries actually make,
buy control danced effective given grave hope opportunity situation wonderful
Now he's being given the opportunity to buy back effective control (of Virgin) at 1.40 aud (a share), so it is an extraordinarily wonderful situation for him. I hope he hasn't danced on my grave prematurely.
personal-transformation transformation collectives
Without deep personal transformation, collective transformation is not possible.
business thinking years
I think the most important CEO task is defining the course that the business will take over the next five or so years. You have to have the ability to see what the business environment might be like a long way out, not just over the coming months. You need to be able to both set a broad direction, and also to take particular decisions along the way that make that broad direction unfold correctly.
ambition opportunity years
I'd always had a childhood ambition to go into the investment capital business, and spent twenty-odd years in it. But the thought of spending the second half of my career in the same business was boring, so I looked around for other opportunities .
determination government house
You would have to say of John Howard's government that he has tended to go after things with a fair degree of determination, and I would have thought.. I don't see any reason why that should suddenly disappear now that he has control of both houses.
business mistake needs
You can't overestimate the need to plan and prepare. In most of the mistakes I've made, there has been this common theme of inadequate planning beforehand. You really can't over-prepare in business!
inspirational thinking blue
I think Virgin Blue is still a very promising and exciting business. Now, I know that's not a view that's widely held in the market but I think the market is simply throwing it into the too-hard basket at the present time because of the oil price events. But we think it is still a very exciting business.