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...
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.
business people road
We don't need to dilute, or as some people say pollute, by merging our business with a road freight-forwarding business,
might suspect
I suspect it might be a while getting a suitable candidate.
progress
I don't think any progress has been made on that front.
approve certainly
I did not know about, and certainly did not approve of, this arrangement,
chief face meet option prepared
If (Toll chief Paul) Little isn't prepared to face us in the boardroom, we have no option but to meet him in court,
achieve benefits choose pleased result share toll
I'm pleased that we have been able to achieve this result for Patrick shareholders who may now choose to share in the benefits of the merged Toll and Patrick businesses.
primarily toll
If you look at Toll as a business, it's a primarily a road-based, freight forwarding business,
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.