Tony Quinn On Money, Grief, Racetracks And Giving Away $13 Million
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Hello and thank you so much for choosing to listen to this episode of the Dom Harvey Podcast, sponsored by the Generate KiwiSaver Scheme. Coming up. T Q Tony
Quinn. I I don't do it because it's uh you know, the bank account looks good. Does money bring happiness? Yep. Doesn't guarantee happiness, but it brings happiness. You go and buy a Rolex, you're happy. Yeah.
Tony Quinn is a Scottish-born businessman based in Australia with massive links to New Zealand. He built and sold the billion-dollar pet food business, VIP, and now, amongst other things, owns four racetracks, including here in New Zealand, Highlands, Hampton Downs and the Topor Motorsport Park. Not bad for a kid who grew up in a wooden caravan in Scotland. In this episode, it's a very wide-ranging chat. We talk about losing his daughter to cancer, the loneliness that followed the breakdown of his 38-year marriage, the big wins and losses of business life, the thrill of driving Michael Schumacher's F1 car, almost dying in 2022? The buzz he got from giving life-changing sums of money to staff, his obsession with maths, yep, married at first sight, and so much more.
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Okay, here we go. TQ. Tony Quinn on the Dom Harvey Podcast.
I'm really, really glad to be here. I only discovered who you were and what you did yesterday in Topo, and I'm glad to be here. Well what do you
mean you only discovered?
What does that mean? Well, I d I live in Australia, so I didn't I don't know who Dom is, but um I bumped into a guy that knows you and Taupo and then another guy came on the scene and he knew you as well. So everybody knew you except me, really. I d you know, I've been I lived in New Zealand from nineteen eighty four to nineteen ninety four ish. So I don't know what you were doing then. Um But uh yeah, no, I it's all new to me.
So this is what you do? You just agree to go on podcasts with strange men? Well yeah, I you're never sure
what you're gonna meet and what you're gonna do and what the challenges are. And you know, if Josie's plan is any part of it, you just basically have to brace yourself. You know, you're not sure what's gonna happen.
Yeah, so Josie, who you just mentioned, um she's your manager at Hampton Downs and Hard. So
Josie looks after basically my New Zealand um emperor for want of a better term and she really came to the fore uh during COVID where, you know, I wasn't able to come across a lot and basically the world was living on Zoom and uh Josie had to handle all the the difficult decisions with staff and businesses and how to how to operate during COVID, which we've all forgotten about.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What does the episode intro cover and who is the sponsor?
0:00–6:40
2
How does Tony describe his racetrack empire and his love of high‑performance cars?
6:40–12:20
3
What happened to Tony’s daughter Kelda and how did it affect his life?
12:20–16:30
4
How did Tony’s 38‑year marriage end and what business lessons does he share afterward?
16:30–1:10:10
5
What early anecdotes does Tony share about his butcher days and the first big business deals?
1:10:10–1:21:32
6
How did Tony structure the sale of VIP and what did he keep for future investments?
1:21:32–1:41:47
7
Why did Tony revive the Street Smart road‑safety program and how much did he pledge?
1:41:47–2:01:23
8
What does Tony say about money, happiness, legacy and his plans for the future?
2:01:23–2:14:08
Speakers
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