Tutorial L-28 Inspirational Stories
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Lindsay Fox- International Trucking Magnate
Length: 16mins.
Learning Difficulty:
• Lindsay did not enjoy schoolwork except for Sport, Mathematics and his friends.
• Lindsay spent much of his time trying to figure out how to get out of attending school.
• Lindsay repeated Year 8 and Year 9 of secondary school.
• Lindsay played a lot of sport at school.
• Lindsay left school during Year 9.
Support Received:
• No support provided.
Achievements:
• At sixteen years of age Lindsay purchased his first truck to cart coal and coke from the West Melbourne Gas Works.
• Made Top Ten Richest Men in Australia in 2009.
• Lindsay created his logo “You Are Passing Another Fox” when he bought his second truck.
• Now Linfox has 5000 trucks and employs 26,000 people worldwide.
• Benefactor for schools, hospitals and charities.
• Introduced a youth campaign for communities to focus on getting young unemployed people into the workforce.
Advice To Other Students:
• Lindsay has lived by 3 rules during his life and although school is important today, this is his advice:
1. The harder you work – the luckier you become.
2. If you think you can or you think you can’t – You are right.
3. If better is possible – Good is not enough.
Includes: Student Weekly Review L22 – L28
