Quotes By Rupert Murdoch

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.

When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right.

Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.

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.

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.

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.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

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.

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.

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.

Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.

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.

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.

I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.

I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible.

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.

My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different.

The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.

I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good.

Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it?

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.

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.

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

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.

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.