David Kirk Quotations

Morale is a little bit dimmed, is a bit affected by the redundancy program. That program had been planned for quite some time, and when I took over it was really left to me to make the final decision and it clearly was the right thing to do for the business.

PMP was in an almost diametrically opposite situation to Fairfax,

When Jesus calls his disciples 'brothers' and 'friends', he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person.

With our own Internet businesses in Australia, this materially increases Fairfax's exposure to the Internet, and therefore to a faster growth profile for the whole business.

Fairfax Digital's outstanding performance - both financially and in competitive terms - shows it is a major force in online markets in Australia, and we intend for it to continue to enjoy significant growth in its news and classifieds businesses.

You get what you're good enough to take.

We are obviously thinking about continuing to develop our classifieds positions, autos, jobs and homes,

Booming internet revenues and profits with improved market positions for our Fairfax Digital news and classifieds franchises, a solid performance in New Zealand, continued growth in business publishing and our regional newspapers ... with tight cost controls in a cyclical downturn have all resulted in solid profit growth.

The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. 'Religion' means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts.

The strong revenue and earnings performance of Fairfax Digital in Australia, together with today's acquisition of Trade Me in New Zealand, and other online opportunities that we are pursuing, are coming together to give Fairfax a higher growth profile.

As a result of our successful online investments, we are now a significantly more diversified media company.

You can't just carry everyone else's hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight.

This is what analysts have calculated. It's a number that's out there and we're not arguing with it.

it's got to be consistent with our overall strategy and two, is there value in it?

David did a huge job managing that cultural change. He's a good-quality, practical, hardworking, people person who related well to people across the board.

David won't thank me for saying this but there have been a couple of things that have gone wrong in his personal investments.

Increasingly I've had to learn to be less single-minded, to manage the whole complexity. I'm still learning to balance sitting in the office cooking up plans with getting out of the office and talking to people.

I'm passionately interested in the media and want to be engaged in it,

The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!

The company as a whole posted a healthy earnings gain, even with the weaker economy.