Top 184 Quotes & Sayings by Roger Ailes
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Last updated on December 24, 2024.
I believe business news is general news.
Audiences are shifting. Platforms are shifting. Ages are shifting. It's better to be in charge of change than to have to react to change.
There is a - deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me.
I look for something unique, and I look for people who haven't reached their potential. I think I'm pretty good at developing talent.
I can't stand cruel people. And if I see people doing something mean to somebody else just to make themselves feel important, it really gets me mad.
I quit politics because I hated it.
It would be a lie to say that I don't care what people say about me. Every human being cares unless they're nuts. Am I nuts? But you can't allow that to override your mission.
My doctor told me that I'm old, fat, and ugly, but none of those things is going to kill me immediately.
I don't pay a lot of attention to communist infiltrators.
Van Jones has one job: to stir up racism, whether he can find it or not.
Who's like Bill O'Reilly? If there was somebody like Bill O'Reilly, they'd be out there getting ratings. No matter how much the mainstream press dumps on him, the guy constantly delivers an interesting show. He's unique.
The press is supposed to watch the powerful. And not throw in with them.
Listen, we elected Warren G. Harding. Anybody has a chance.
I like Bloomberg; he's a friend.
Do I take alternative points of view? Yes, because all the media are going in another direction.
I have a soft spot for Joe Biden. I like him. But he's dumb as an ashtray.
Usually, there are three or four major news spikes per year.
Anybody who knows me knows that half the time I'm saying things with a somewhat humorous overtone.
I don't care about my legacy. It's too late. My enemies will create it, and they'll push it.
I don't have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people in a mall to be paid $40 to tell me how to do my job, I shouldn't do my job.
You cannot allow whether someone likes you or not to alter your course of action. Sometimes I think, 'Sure, that hurts my feelings.' But it's not so important that I will adjust what I'm doing because someone is not going to like me.
I want to prove that a fat guy can get to 100 still working.
I want clean water and clean air and conservation... that's not what extreme environmentalists are all about. For them, it is a religion. They believe in trees and animals, not God.
I've been an underdog all my life.
Everybody fears the unknown. But I have a strong feeling there's something bigger than us. I don't think all this exists because some rocks happened to collide. I'm at peace. When it comes, I'll be fine, calm. I'll miss life, though. Especially my family.
All business is basically about customers and marketing and making money and capitalism and winning and promoting it and having something someone really wants.
I'm not trying to be anyone. You know why other executives always hire phonies? Because they're phonies. They hire phonies because they like phonies. They're comfortable with them.
Television and I grew up together.
You never pull the trigger until you know you can win.
I didn't give up my citizenship to create and run a news organization.
Obama's the one who never worked a day in his life. He never earned a penny that wasn't public money. How many fund-raisers does he attend every week? How often does he play basketball and golf? I wish I had that kind of time.
If somebody wants to book Alec Baldwin on one of our shows, and he wants to come on and talk to our people and say what he wants, I don't care. We would question him on his choice of words.
The news business is simple, but it's not easy to do well.
I think almost everything in life is life-experience, personality-driven.
I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was.
I'm constantly trying to invent different ways to do things. If you're going to be a television executive, you have to change with the times.
Fox News has a very-high-income audience, and I think that any business channel automatically draws that. We're not gonna reach for a lower financial demographic.
I believe most people think the economy is very important.
A guy who gets fired and humiliated in the press can lose a lot of confidence.
I've been kicked out of every damn church I've ever belonged to.
I like Marco Rubio. But I don't know about as a vice-presidential candidate. He's a nice guy, and that role requires kicking the crap out of your opponents.
There are always people that will rise to the occasion when there is no occasion, but it is hard to find people will do it when there is.
CNBC was completely in the dumper when I went there.
The difference between pros and amateurs is that pros play hurt.
I think liberals have a lot of good ideas, actually. But I've been pigeonholed, and I'm quite comfortable with it.
The reality is, to watch Jon Stewart, you already have to have watched the news. In other words, it's not funny if he does a joke about John McCain and they don't know who John McCain is.
Growing up in Ohio and just being kind of an average guy from flyover country - my dad was a factory guy - I try to put things on a screen that reflect reality. I don't mind if people want to argue with that, or think that's crazy.
I've been thanked a lot in Wendy's, Applebee's, and Marriot hotels, I've never been thanked in Le Cirque, for some reason. I try to spend as little time as possible in Le Cirque; that's not because the food isn't good... I'm not the kind of guy who likes to find his food under his parsley.
If you've got a big star like O'Reilly, it does overshadow what the hard-news guys do during the day. That's the nature of television.
We're not programming to conservatives. We're just not eliminating their point of view.
The contributions being made by Latinos are extraordinary, and we need to talk about them.
I could never be elected.
A lot of what we do at Fox is blue-collar stuff.
Tell me who you want to see on the Left, and I'll hire them. If you give me a big name that's out there, that's floating around and wants work, I'd be happy to hire them.
My toughest job every day is maintaining intensity with myself and with my staff.
I only understand friendship or scorched earth.
CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad.
Money will find you if people believe in your message.
CNN and MSNBC, our primary competitors, are trying to figure out how to beat us. There are some good, smart people at those networks, and even occasionally a blind pig finds an acorn.
When the press falls in love, they fall in love hard.
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