Quotes By Rupert Murdoch

I've operated and launched newspapers all over the world.

One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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 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.

Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.

Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

Bury your mistakes.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I think everyone's against abortion.

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.