Frank Lowy
Frank Lowy
Frank Lowy, ACis an Australian-Israeli businessman and Chairman of Westfield Corporation, a global shopping centre company with US$29.3 billion of assets under management in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe. He is a former Chairman of Scentre Group, the owner and manager of Westfield-branded shopping centres in Australia and New Zealand...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth22 October 1930
CityFil'akovo, Slovakia
CountryAustralia
We currently don't have the right man for the job in Australia.
Maybe next time it can be an Australian but this is a global game. It's not about nationality, it's about talent and finding somebody with the right experience.
We have (got assurances from the Greek football federation) that the best team will come from Greece and we will (also) have the Australian team in full swing.
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.
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.
The loss of my father was the most traumatic event in my life - I can't forget the pain.
I don't remember all my successes, but I do remember failures.
I am 84 years old and have not retired because I feel I have something to contribute.
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.
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.
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.
So many times I wanted to go to Auschwitz, but I couldn't take up the courage to go there.
Life has its ups and downs, but you can only look forward.
We are making sure the game will exist, and that people will be able to watch the game because money has come into the game.