Chris Corrigan Business Quotations

We don't need to dilute, or as some people say pollute, by merging our business with a road freight-forwarding business,

I've got a very poor opinion as it turns out now, because we've been stitched up in the transaction in relation to Pacific National, which has really broken down the trust that I would have in a business partner,

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.

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!

I'm a firm believer that to really understand a business takes years, not months. As an investment analyst you think you understand a business from the outside, but the reality is that, once you are inside, you can go on learning for five or ten years.