David Kirk Quotes (21 Quotes)

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.

We are obviously thinking about continuing to develop our classifieds positions, autos, jobs and homes. Travel and financial services are areas that we will look at hard.

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.

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.

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

James Packer said this week that new technology had made the newspaper game very scary ... Newspapers have never operated in a more dynamic and challenging, fragmented environment but they're a fantastic vehicle for news, entertainment and for advertising, and they will remain so.

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

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

The fool for Christ holds a prophetic role in Christianity, from the early church to Russian Orthodox 'pilgrims' and such later fools as Luther, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevsky, who were seekers after the true, the good, the holy, the beautiful. They were insane - not in a clinical sense, but in the madness of the Holy, an insanity which ordinary sanity refuses to admit.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

PMP was in an almost diametrically opposite situation to Fairfax,

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.

We are living 'between the times' - the time of Christ's resurrection and the new age of the Spirit, and the time of fulfillment in Christ. Life in the Spirit is a pledge, a 'down-payment', on the final kingdom of shalom. In the meantime, we are to be signs of the kingdom which is, and which is coming.