James Packer quote: "New management at Nine has launched a concerted attack on its cost base in order to restore margins through eliminating waste, improving efficiency and lowering programming costs."

He could be flint-hard, but he could also be soft.
JAMES PACKER

We are of the view that the expected returns from the integrated resort are insufficient to justify ...
JAMES PACKER

One of the rationales is that if you can have a number of divisions then occasionally one of them ca...
JAMES PACKER

I've come to tell you that we're going to take the AFL. We're all going to get together to take thos...
JAMES PACKER

We believe that punters will appreciate having access to an exciting new 21st century product and th...
JAMES PACKER

I've come to tell you that we're going to take the AFL ... We're all going to get together to take t...
JAMES PACKER

It doesn't matter what you spend, I would not be up against Rupert when it comes to getting the NRL ...
JAMES PACKER

With the continued expansion of the group PBL is now a company with interests in a diverse range of ...
JAMES PACKER

We're all going to get together to take those rights. We really don't want to do it but News are mak...
JAMES PACKER

Our gaming and magazine businesses continue to perform very well whilst the television business is w...
JAMES PACKER

If we think that Jesus did not rise, but "lives" and "reigns" only in his memories and imaginations,...
JAMES I. PACKER

Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107 There is abroad today a widespread suspicio...
JAMES I. PACKER

Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871 Kn...
JAMES I. PACKER

Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 The mystery revealed, in a un...
JAMES I. PACKER

What, after all, are the world's deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individu...
JAMES I. PACKER

Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921 When evangelicals call the Bible "ine...
JAMES I. PACKER

I really feel like the sky is the limit. I'm a dreamer, and I dream in full vivid color HD.
WILL PACKER

This functionality is backed up by Windows Live features like centralized storage and it can be mana...
ALAN PACKER

We're trying to?move away from this idea of control, blocking and locking down the Internet. We're m...
ALAN PACKER

With version 1, we've focused on consumers and families but there is definitely a need for classroom...
ALAN PACKER

We've built a new product called Family Safety Settings. We're calling it Family Safety, rather than...
ALAN PACKER

These products are designed to be complimentary. We developed them together.
ALAN PACKER

Make a technical contribution; innovate, don't emulate.
DAVID PACKER

Al Qaeda asks its recruits to establish their bona fides as a condition of membership, even requirin...
GEORGE PACKER

The Princeton economist Alan Krueger has demonstrated that societies with higher levels of income in...
GEORGE PACKER

Lawyers, judges, doctors, shrinks, accountants, investigators and, not least, journalists could not ...
GEORGE PACKER

I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter ligh...
KERRY PACKER

The Iraq war was always a long shot. But it was made immeasurably longer by its principal architects...
GEORGE PACKER

Oprah is just this goddess presiding over so much of American life, and her story is really interest...
GEORGE PACKER

No one pretends anymore that the Olympics are just about sports. It's routine to talk about what...
GEORGE PACKER

Before Google, and long before Facebook, Bezos had realized that the greatest value of an online com...
GEORGE PACKER

Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagi...
GEORGE PACKER

Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Un...
GEORGE PACKER

The base of the party, the middle-aged white working class, has suffered at least as much as any dem...
GEORGE PACKER

Together, Apple and Walmart represent the intense separation of American life into blue and red, ric...
GEORGE PACKER

The idea of solving as huge and long-term a problem as inequality - which, for my money, is the bigg...
GEORGE PACKER

For 20 years, my mother, my sister and I had seldom spoken of my father. If he happened to come up i...
GEORGE PACKER

The similarities are limited but real. They amount to a shared disgust with politics as usual in Ame...
GEORGE PACKER

It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.
GEORGE PACKER

Foreign policy exactly suits Obama's strong points as a leader, which turn out not to be giving ...
GEORGE PACKER

Millions don't rally to the banner of Uncertainty.
GEORGE PACKER

Every movement, to stay alive - a very difficult thing to do historically - has to find a way to har...
GEORGE PACKER

Jay-Z is a hero, Sam Walton is a hero - these are not exactly communitarian champions. These are - i...
GEORGE PACKER

'Charlie Hebdo' had been nondenominational in its satire, sticking its finger into the sensi...
GEORGE PACKER

The libertarian worship of individual freedom, and contempt for social convention, comes easiest to ...
GEORGE PACKER

A great writer requires a great biography, and a great biography must tell the truth.
GEORGE PACKER

The reformocons court right-wing censure simply by acknowledging that the middle class is under pres...
GEORGE PACKER

The hollowing out of the heartland was good for Walmart's bottom line: its slogan might have bee...
GEORGE PACKER

The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assem...
GEORGE PACKER

'The Assassins' Gate' is a very tightly controlled story of the ideas that led to the wa...
GEORGE PACKER

The Senate was an odd compromise between the founders and the early leaders of the republic who want...
GEORGE PACKER

Everyone finds justification for his or her views in logic and analysis, but a personal philosophy o...
GEORGE PACKER

Climate change joined immigration, job creation, food safety, pilot training, veterans' care, ca...
GEORGE PACKER

The phrase 'change the world' is tossed around Silicon Valley conversations and business pla...
GEORGE PACKER

It's - the working class of San Francisco and the Bay Area is being pushed out of its old neighb...
GEORGE PACKER

While starving refugees in Homs were providing target practice for government snipers, Bashar al-Ass...
GEORGE PACKER

To summarize, then, it appears that Christian holiness is a number of things together. It has both o...
J.I. PACKER

Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is ...
J.I. PACKER

Trump has seized the Republican nomination by finding scapegoats for the economic hardships and disi...
GEORGE PACKER

College basketball has gotten to the point where there are so many teams that think they can win tom...
BILLY PACKER

Can you imagine the difference in (power teams) now that allows a team like George Mason to do this?...
BILLY PACKER

Nobody is going to be bothered by that, at least the person who's hired won't be. If somebody is bot...
BILLY PACKER

They proved what they can do. So my opinion is useless. If every team had lost, does that mean those...
BILLY PACKER

Obama offers himself as a catalyst by which disenchanted Americans can overcome two decades of vicio...
GEORGE PACKER

Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized...
GEORGE PACKER

Inequality saps the economy by draining the buying power of Americans whose incomes have stagnated, ...
GEORGE PACKER

Discerning the legal difference between what WikiLeaks did and what news organizations do is difficu...
GEORGE PACKER

Wait on the Lord" is a constant refrain in the Psalms, and it is a necessary word, for God often kee...
J.I. PACKER

We cannot rest until all demographics are equitably represented in AP. It's clear that many minority...
TREVOR PACKER

In the extremity of war, character is revealed.
GEORGE PACKER

Everything seems set up for success in digital journalism - money, eyeballs, software, brands.
GEORGE PACKER

When you come into the industry as an outsider, you need to have an entrepreneurial spirit to succee...
WILL PACKER

It's exciting to see that educators are actually helping a bigger segment of a bigger population lea...
TREVOR PACKER

I'm always going to go up against movies with bigger muscle and money, so I need to have a stron...
WILL PACKER

How much do we owe the people we love? Now I would add a follow-up question: How do we cope with the...
ANN PACKER

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevita...
GEORGE PACKER

I did have imprinted on me the idea of trauma that changes things dramatically and suddenly. As a wr...
ANN PACKER

White male privilege remains alive in America, but the phrase would seem odd, if not infuriating, to...
GEORGE PACKER

I'm happy to see book clubs on TV. Talking about books has always been an important and invigora...
ANN PACKER

I actually think that self-interest is overrated as an all-purpose guide to political motive. It lea...
GEORGE PACKER

The information age has made Thiel rich, but it has also been a disappointment to him. It hasn't...
GEORGE PACKER

American wars in Muslim countries created some extremists and inflamed many more while producing a s...
GEORGE PACKER

Republicans today have given the country conservatism in the spirit of Sarah Palin, whose ignorance ...
GEORGE PACKER

If you have wind, rain or flood damage to your home or business, we are not going to energize transf...
DAN PACKER

Guidance, like all God's acts of blessing under the covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merel...
J.I. PACKER

I need not torment myself with the fear that my faith may fail; as grace led me to faith in the firs...
J.I. PACKER

In its lowest, most common form, inspiration is simple charisma that becomes magnified by the media,...
GEORGE PACKER

Optimism hopes for the best without any guarantee of its arriving and is often no more than whistlin...
J.I. PACKER

He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest ...
J.I. PACKER

There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion.
J.I. PACKER

In the New Testament, grace means God's love in action toward people who merited the opposite of lov...
J.I. PACKER

The most excellent study for expanding the soul, is the science of Christ, and Him crucified, and th...
J.I. PACKER

The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at t...
J.I. PACKER

I feel confident that a part of the central business district will be lit up tonight and the rest to...
DAN PACKER

It's a timing issue for us as much as anything. We just needed a cash infusion to pay our bills imme...
DAN PACKER

This isn't to deny that there were fierce arguments, at the time and ever since, about the causes an...
GEORGE PACKER

[T]he enduring problem for liberals, as for everyone else, is not whether history will judge them wi...
GEORGE PACKER

Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Co...
GEORGE PACKER

The attacks of 9/11 were the biggest surprise in American history, and for the past ten years we hav...
GEORGE PACKER

What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are co...
J.I. PACKER

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked.

Principles are something di...
GEORGE PACKER

We use the video to expand our movement instead of obscure it. It's still our bodies. And it's still...
MYRNA PACKER

One reason New York leads the nation is due to the tremendously strong programs in place on Long Isl...
TREVOR PACKER

I'd expect if they face each other it would be quite a basketball game.
BILLY PACKER

He showed me some things, in terms of his ability to handle the ball. He came up big-time, like the ...
BILLY PACKER

They went in a little down spell in 2000. So if history goes back to 2000, this is a scenario that d...
BILLY PACKER

Let me take you back to 1979.
BILLY PACKER

You've got to be kidding.
BILLY PACKER

If he misses, Kentucky can get that rebound and get a shot.
BILLY PACKER

Almost all coaches realize at the college level that it's an important part of the game. If you're n...
BILLY PACKER

The colleges are so close to each other, and the alumni all work with each other so closely. So if o...
BILLY PACKER

It was a hell of a tournament. It gave credibility to the league. No outside team ever won it.
BILLY PACKER

The preacher should work to convert his congregation; the wife should work to save her unbelieving h...
J.I. PACKER

Read two old books for every new one.
J.I. PACKER

Whatever else in the Bible catches your eye, do not let it distract you from Him.
J.I. PACKER

God was happy without humans before they were made; he would have continued happy had he simply dest...
J.I. PACKER

Thank you, Mr.Lewis, for being you. I wouldn't have missed you for the world.
J.I. PACKER

Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.
J.I. PACKER

The healthy Christian is not necessarily the extrovert, ebullient Christian, but the Christian who h...
J.I. PACKER

We should not...think of our fellowship with other Christians as a spiritual luxury, an optional add...
J.I. PACKER

We're not asking for a handout here, we're asking for an investment.
DAN PACKER

To many book professionals, Amazon is a ruthless predator. The company claims to want a more literat...
GEORGE PACKER

Part of the mystique of blogs is their protean quality: They work both sides of the divide between p...
GEORGE PACKER

The difference between a reporter, a newspaper columnist, a paid speaker, a television personality, ...
GEORGE PACKER

At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a ...
GEORGE PACKER

Nor is it the spirit of those Christians - alas, they are many - whose ambition in life seems limite...
J.I. PACKER

Several steps in the current test are difficult or inconclusive. You can imagine that with so many p...
NICOLLE PACKER

Several steps in the current test are difficult or inconclusive, ... You can imagine that with so ma...
NICOLLE PACKER

I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen...
GEORGE PACKER

There's this perception that the roads are paved in gold here and that we have plenty of money. A lo...
DENNIS PACKER

They want to put this region back to where it was in the 1960s.
DENNIS PACKER

If the presidential nominating process were an international sports competition, one would assume th...
GEORGE PACKER

It's essential for the U.S. and Europe to prevent Putin from going farther and reversing the har...
GEORGE PACKER

A curious thing about this rarefied world is that bloggers are almost unfailingly contemptuous towar...
GEORGE PACKER

Partly what I'm writing about is the way taboos get toppled.
GEORGE PACKER

Too many talented and supremely calculating politicians, including Nixon and Clinton, have destroyed...
GEORGE PACKER

We thought after a lot of deliberations that this was the way to go.
DAN PACKER

I feel pretty comfortable that we'll get there.
DAN PACKER

We thought it was critical to continue our restoration efforts. We really needed to be able to do so...
DAN PACKER

Were assuming that people want to come back to something with some value.
DAN PACKER

I think we have a good chance of seeing some of that money. That would ameliorate the rate shock tha...
DAN PACKER

We were expecting the worst and I think it's meeting those expectations for us at this point.
DAN PACKER

We have an immediate need for cash because our goal is to continue the restoration effort.
DAN PACKER

I have my sympathies and also my critical views, and they aren't much of a secret, but my first ...
GEORGE PACKER

Walmart's period of explosive growth coincided with decades of wage stagnation and deindustriali...
GEORGE PACKER

In this country, Iraq was almost always about winning the argument.
GEORGE PACKER

lies a distance even greater than the 8,000 miles from Washington to Baghdad.
GEORGE PACKER

Good writing requires a character with a voice. Usually, the first sound bite is not the whole story...
GEORGE PACKER

The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
GEORGE PACKER

The Road to Hell.
GEORGE PACKER

The Assassin's Gate: America in Iraq
GEORGE PACKER

I never found the questions easy to answer, and the manner in which the country argued with itself s...
GEORGE PACKER

Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be...
J.I. PACKER

We were told we can't go inside until March. And we have to be satisfied with that because it's a ci...
MARGIE PACKER

We're hoping to re-establish as much of the historical fiber of Slidell as we can. This is our life....
MARGIE PACKER

I support the bigot's right to speak out, as if I start limiting them, they may start limiting me. I...
LAURA PACKER

We didn't come out on the level we needed to, especially in the first four minutes. We were scoring,...
MARSCILLA PACKER

I was just trying to get open, and when I got an open look I shot the ball.
MARSCILLA PACKER

The ball fell into my hands. Debbie (Merrill) went in there for the offensive rebound and she had he...
MARSCILLA PACKER

We have a play for the last three seconds that we practice every day. The cut was there. I was open ...
MARSCILLA PACKER

We practice a play similar to that almost every day in practice. At that point it's a matter of just...
MARSCILLA PACKER

It's exciting in those situations, you want the ball in your hands. You want to make the play to win...
MARSCILLA PACKER

I think he needs me to make shots and things like that. And I know I?m going to knock down shots, bu...
MARSCILLA PACKER

I was getting to open spots. I think it's my responsibility to call for the ball when I'm open and s...
MARSCILLA PACKER

I think I just became a little more aggressive and was actually looking to shoot the ball.
MARSCILLA PACKER

That was a breakthrough for us. It extended our use of the body. It meant we weren't restricted by t...
MYRNA PACKER

There is a concern that the U.S. is not producing enough engineers to be competitive with developing...
TREVOR PACKER

Thus the effect of his gift of wisdom is to make us more humble, more joyful, more godly, more quick...
J.I. PACKER

I'm amazed at the amount of time people spend on the Internet.
J. I. PACKER

Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we don't teach the confessions and doctr...
J. I. PACKER

Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of ...
J. I. PACKER

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
J. I. PACKER

I'm saying that an editorial process that is preparing the material for publication counts as pa...
J. I. PACKER

I never get to the end of mortifying sin because sin in my heart, where it's still marauding eve...
J. I. PACKER

In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite...
J. I. PACKER

The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.
J. I. PACKER

I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be s...
J. I. PACKER

My advice to a new husband is nothing more than 'husbands, love your wives.' And 'love y...
J. I. PACKER

Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thou...
J. I. PACKER

Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do.
BOYD K. PACKER

Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647 Continuing a short series on the Bi...
J. I. PACKER

All Christians believe in divine sovereignty but some are not aware that they do, and mistakenly ima...
J. I. PACKER

Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides ...
J. I. PACKER

I recognize two kinds of faith. The first is the kind which is apparent in the world. It is the comm...
BOYD K. PACKER

Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because th...
BOYD K. PACKER

The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evi...
BOYD K. PACKER

Richie Rich, Keoki, Amanda LaPore are really successful. They've joined the culture at large.
JAMES ST. JAMES

I came to NYU to study experimental theater. Shortly thereafter, I was featured in a 'Newsweek&#...
JAMES ST. JAMES

The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.
JAMES ST. JAMES

Why, oh why, must we always go through pigs to get our truffles?
JAMES ST. JAMES

I would go to the all-night grocery store and pretend that I was at Studio 54 because it was the onl...
JAMES ST. JAMES

We danced on the lip of the volcano, so to speak. We were young, too. And New York was still a big, ...
JAMES ST. JAMES

I'll always be a party monster. I'll always love getting dressed up.
JAMES ST. JAMES

As for my identity within the context of New York nightlife? I left in the '90s, so I'm not ...
JAMES ST. JAMES

I was definitely the oddball freak show in school.
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When my trust fund ran out, I panicked. I have a lot of admiration for the kids who come to the big ...
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I think that when you are a teenager, it's the smartest you will ever be in your life. Teenagers...
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Watch out for the average--they're usually hiding something big.
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There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free...
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War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.
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New management at Nine has launched a concerted attack on its cost base in order to restore margins through eliminating waste, improving efficiency and lowering programming costs.

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