Tony Greig's Quotes

Cricket the world over, I don't think, will ever know how different things would be without Kerry Packer.

Each investigation team has a lawyer attached to it and there was a lawyer attached to me and my assistant.

I met with people who are already very angry with the tribunal.

The U.N. was there to protect other Rwandese.

Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police.

And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons.

I think today that it is essential that the Rwandan tribunal continues to prosecute efficiently. And if the U.N. fails to do that, it is sending entirely the wrong message to people who are in the position to complete these atrocities again.

I was employed as an investigator and my particular team, we were investigating the role of the business community in the genocide and we identified a bunch of leaders of the business community and I investigated two people.

One of the difficulties about interviewing people in Rwanda is that the country is trying to get on with ordinary life and some people just don't want to get involved in this.

The U.N. has been so disappointing to date on the whole Rwanda issue that despite the people they've sent through, and I have no doubt their competence, in the end, the decision is going to be made by other people and not by them.

Us investigators who went out into the field were faced on occasion with a lot of anger, by people saying why has it taken you five or six year to come and see me?

Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped.

You have to understand that once an indictment has been signed, all countries that are signature to the U.N. charter will hand a person straight over. You don't have to go through the normal extradition process.

Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response.

I had an idea, I was passionate about it and I had to work hard to turn that into a big success and more products.

I have an innate instinct for knowing what's going to work.

I like helping people.

I think people don't like when you're not confident about what you're pitching, and they don't want to invest in you or get behind you.

I've achieved a certain amount of success and now I'm thinking about the good things I can do.

People trust I know what I'm doing. I have lots of credibility. I've had years of learning. I know and understand my business.

I always recommend, if you can, to patent or protect whatever your idea is. If you can't, you have to make your best judgment. Sometimes people don't get anywhere because they sit on something, so afraid to reveal it. And yet, in the reverse, sometimes if you expose something too widely, you can risk losing it.

I had a history for starting something and maybe getting halfway done. Then I'd see the same thing I was doing on the bestseller list! My ideas were right, but I hadn't done them fast enough.

I prefer to like the people I invest in, but it's not an absolute necessity, as long as they have a good mind and I know they'll do whatever it takes to be successful.