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I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.

It's kind of a crazy thing to decide that you're going to be worth tens and tens and tens of millions of dollars and set out to do that. It doesn't suit everybody.

I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?

Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.

Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world laughs at you guys? Have you got any idea? They're just rocking with laughter night and day.

You'll never get rich by working for your boss.

I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.

The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.

Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.

Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.

You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.

The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.

Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.

No woman or girl is going to want to spend time looking at pretty dresses on the Internet. Vogue is going to be around for a long time to come.

Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.

I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.

Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.

I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.

I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have.

I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.