Top 144 Quotes & Sayings by Rupert Murdoch
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
The CNN international is a different service - it is even more leftist and anti-American than CNN is. That's their business, that's fine, but it can't be getting any revenue. There is no cable network that I know of anywhere in the world other than in America that pays them for their products.
I don't mind what people say about me. I've never read a book about myself.
I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.
At its core, a fair and just society is one where opportunity is open to all - not just those at the top.
In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.
Bury your mistakes.
As an immigrant, I chose to live in America because it is one of the freest and most vibrant nations in the world. And as an immigrant, I feel an obligation to speak up for immigration policies that will keep America the most economically robust, creative and freedom-loving nation in the world.
We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll sell our business news and information in print, we'll sell it to anyone who's got a cable system, and we'll sell it on the Web.
It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests.
The press is the only institution that is truly accountable. The founding fathers put the First Amendment first for a reason.
People who watch 'Fox News,' you may say, and this is anecdotal, but they are passionate about it. In the most unlikely places, like down in Soho where I used to live, people would come up to me and thank me for it. People I didn't know from a bar of soap. People appreciate that at least they're being heard. It is much more watchable.
I am amazed that CNN can't get its act together.
We certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox... and we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line.
Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs.
I'm a permanently curious person. I probably waste my time being curious about things that have got nothing to do with the business sometimes. What keeps me alive, certainly, is curiosity.
I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.
Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a tape recorder, and after a couple of months, I said, To hell with it. I was so depressed. It was like saying, 'This is the end.' I was more interested in what the hell was coming the next day or the next week.
Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it?
Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.
The cold, commercial word 'market' disguises its human character - a market is a collection of our aspirations, exertions, choices and desires.
Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.
So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don't want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I'm just not ready to stop, to die.
If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something.
You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.
Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged; they must feed the mind and move the heart.
I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good.
You can't have a competitive, egalitarian meritocracy if only some of your citizens have the opportunity for a good education.
I think everyone's against abortion.
I'm not ashamed of any of my papers at all and I'm rather sick of snobs that tell us that they're bad papers, snobs who only read papers that no one else wants. I doubt if they read many papers at all.
At News Corporation, we have a history of challenging media orthodoxies.
My mother just died at 103, so that's a start. You should live 20 years longer than your parents.
There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there's just millions of voices and people want to be heard.
When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right.
One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.
It's been a long career, and I've made some mistakes along the way.
I can go into restaurants and a whole table will get up and clap if they recognize me, because they love Fox News. Other places - or even the same place - people will turn the other way.
I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.
CNN is pretty consistently on the left, if you look at their choice of stories, what they play up. It's not what they say. It's what they highlight.
The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.
I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible.
I've operated and launched newspapers all over the world.
Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.
When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.
I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.
I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.
The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.
Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.
My worry about the New York Times is that it's got the only position as a national elitist general-interest paper. So the network news picks up its cues from the Times. And local papers do too. It has a huge influence. And we'd love to challenge it.
Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.
My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different.
I try to keep in touch with the details... I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening.
Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely.
A lot of people are very happy to read their newspaper either on their iPad or - startlingly and faster and faster the figures go up - on their telephone, on their smart phone.
I feel that people I trusted - I don't know who, on what level - have let me down, and I think they have behaved disgracefully, and it's for them to pay. And I think, frankly, that I'm the best person to see it through.
The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.
Online advertising is increasingly only a fraction of what is being lost from print advertising, and it is under constant pressure.
I think you have a danger of regulating, putting regulations in place which will mean there will be no press in 10 years to regulate.
No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.
I'm not looking for a legacy, and you'll never shut up the critics. I've been around 50 years. When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.
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