Top 100 Rupert Murdoch Quotes
#1. We started Fox when everyone said it couldn't be done.
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#2. One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.
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#3. We must have sweeping, generous immigration reform, make existing law- abiding Hispanics welcome. Most are hard working family people.
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#4. Online advertising is increasingly only a fraction of what is being lost from print advertising, and it is under constant pressure.
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#5. Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it?
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#6. What's just about a generation of people who rack up government debt for their own health care and retirement - while leaving their children and grandchildren to foot the bill?
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#7. 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.
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#8. 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.
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#9. Climate change has been going on as long as the planet is here, and there will always be a little bit of it.
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#10. 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.
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#11. We're not spending enough money, but probably we let the teachers unions set curriculas which don't teach them the right things. There's not emphasis on the ... the basic learning that you need if you're going to go on in a college and into post-graduate work.
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#12. I have to admit that, until recently, I was somewhat wary of the (global) warming debate. I believe it is now our responsibility to take the lead on this issue.
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#13. Successful workers will be those who embrace a lifetime of learning. Those who don't will be left behind.
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#14. The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.
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#15. 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.
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#16. Societies or companies that expect a glorious past to shield them from the forces of change driven by advancing technology will fail and fall. That applies as much to my own, the media industry, as to every other business on the planet.
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#17. 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.
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#18. Content is not just king, it is the emperor of all things electronic.
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#19. Keith Olbermann is trying to make a business out of destroying Bill O'Reilly. He's done certain things to Bill O'Reilly that I believe were way over the line. I think that's bad behavior. But it's okay for him to criticize Bill. And Bill shouldn't be so sensitive. He should ignore that.
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#20. 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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#21. I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible.
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#22. Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary.
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#23. We've got to get rid of the fear of failure in this country. In America, people start things, fail and shake themselves down and start things again. The animal spirit of capitalism is stronger there.
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#24. If you're in the media, particularly newspapers, you are in the thick of all the interesting things that are going on in a community, and I can't imagine any other life that one would want to dedicate oneself to.
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#26. I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.
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#27. People are playing games on their TV, young men are, and people are shopping ... they are not watching their news channels, but they are using their TVs for other things.
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#28. I wasn't weaned on the web nor coddled on a computer. Instead, I grew up in a highly centralized world where news and information were tightly controlled by a few editors, who deemed to tell us what we could and should know. My two young daughters, on the other hand, will be digital natives.
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#29. It's been a long career, and I've made some mistakes along the way.
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#30. Size and synergies between the different segments of the company matter. As far as we are concerned, the Internet is broadening our opportunity, as well as for other big media companies with huge resources in sports, entertainment and news. There's just more opportunity.
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#31. I was born in Australia and am proud of my Australian provenance, but I am now an American. Like so many naturalized citizens, I felt that I was an American before I formally became one.
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#32. The digital native doesn't send a letter to the editor anymore. She goes online and starts a blog.
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#33. 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.
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#34. 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.
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#35. News - communicating news and ideas, I guess - is my passion. And giving people alternatives so that they have two papers to read (and) alternative television channels.
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#36. I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.
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#37. 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.
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#38. I challenge anybody to show me an example of bias in Fox News Channel.
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#39. 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.
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#40. Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism.
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#41. 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.
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#42. For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values.
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#43. Is there any other industry [than the press] in this country which seeks to presume so completely to give the customer what he does not want?
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#44. Well, except for ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, New York Times, the Washington Post, and about another 100 newspapers, I find little evidence of liberal bias in the media.
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#46. Maybe most Moslems peaceful, but until they recognize and destroy their growing jihadist cancer they must be held responsible,
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#47. 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.
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#48. The reality is that we've seen the last of any serious price wars for a long time. I don't think any of the others could afford it, certainly not on a long-term basis.
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#49. People are reading news for free on the web, that's got to change.
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#50. 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.
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#51. All forms of government ultimately are not going to succeed in trying to control or censor the Internet.
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#52. 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.
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#53. My mother just died at 103, so that's a start. You should live 20 years longer than your parents.
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#54. 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.
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#55. 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.
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#56. 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.
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#57. 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.
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#58. I think the important thing is that there be plenty of newspapers, with plenty of different people controlling them, so that there are a variety of viewpoints, so there is a choice for the public. This is the freedom of the press that is needed.
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#59. You can't have a competitive, egalitarian meritocracy if only some of your citizens have the opportunity for a good education.
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#60. 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.
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#61. I believe people will be watching their TV screens for a long time and that TV channels have a long-term life.
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#62. 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.
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#63. People begin to resent the rich only when they conclude that the system is rigged.
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#64. 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.
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#65. Climate change and energy use are global problems. News Corp is a global company. Our operations affect the environment all over the world.
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#66. The press is the only institution that is truly accountable. The founding fathers put the First Amendment first for a reason.
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#67. Most newspaper companies still have their heads in the sand, but other media companies are aggressive.
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#68. Can we change the world? No, but hell, we can all try.
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#69. My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different.
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#70. Crony capitalism is not capitalism - it is cronyism.
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#71. Endemic is a very hard, a very wide ranging word. I also have to be very careful not to prejudice the course of justice that is taking place now.
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#72. Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.
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#73. We have no intention of failing. The only question is how great a success we'll have.
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#74. 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.
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#75. 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.
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#77. Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.
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#78. I've operated and launched newspapers all over the world.
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#79. 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.
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#80. 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.
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#82. Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.
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#83. No leader will fight for values, for principles, if their government is a value-free vacuum. Moral relativism is morally wrong.
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#84. If you want to judge my thinking, look at The Sun.
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#85. The buck stops with me, but I can tick off dozens of very good senior executives that are responsible for hundreds or thousands of people who work for me.
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#86. I was absolutely shocked, appalled and ashamed when I heard about the Milly Dowler case only two weeks ago.
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#87. We're not a manufacturer, or an airline, but we do use energy. Printing and publishing newspapers, producing films, broadcasting television signals, operating 24-hour newsrooms. It all adds carbon to the atmosphere.
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#88. We need to push ourselves to make as many reductions as possible in our own energy use first.. and that takes time. But we must do this quickly.. the climate will not wait for us.
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#89. You can't have a free democracy if you don't have a free media that can provide vital and independent information to the people.
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#90. Thankfully, Australia has emerged from its inauspicious colonial beginnings to become a proud nation, a nation that overcame those primeval prejudices.
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#91. The current days of the Internet will soon be over.
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#92. Why is Jewish owned press so consistently anti-Israel in every crisis?
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#95. 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.
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#96. While we reduce our own carbon footprint we will encourage the companies who truck our DVDs and newspapers, sell us paper, and provide an enormous range of products and services.. to all contribute.
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#97. In my life, I have learned that most people want the same thing. They are not driven by class resentment. What they want most is to make a better life for themselves and their families - and to know that the opportunities for their children will be better than they were for themselves.
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#98. 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.
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#99. We all know growth is absolutely vital to a free society. No one should want Australia to be a stag-nation: a nation with a stagnant economy and stagnant aspirations.
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