Rupert Murdoch Quotes
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Guru? You find a gem here or there. But most of it’s fairly obvious, you know. You go to Doubleday’s business section and you see all those wonderful titles and you spend $300 and then you throw them all away.
Rupert Murdoch
The buck stops with the guy who signs the cheques.
Rupert Murdoch
The way to operate is with OPM – other people’s money.
Rupert Murdoch
You’ve just got to get on with it.
Rupert Murdoch
Content is everything.
Rupert Murdoch
We have no intention of failing. The only question is how great a success we’ll have.
Rupert Murdoch
If you’re young and reckless, you take risks pretty easily.
Rupert Murdoch
We’re change agents.
Rupert Murdoch
We started very small so we could only afford things that were broke or… to start with.
Rupert Murdoch
I’m not going to claim that we fought the Battle of Wapping because we wanted to bring a silver age to British journalism. When the beaver gnaws down a tree, he isn’t thinking of his vital ecological role either. But nevertheless he has one.
Rupert Murdoch
[On advising Clay Felker to] Borrow a lot of money in order to own something 51 percent. Then work your tail off for two years or three years, scrimp and save and pay off the thing, you’ll own it 100 percent and then you don’t have to take any crap from anybody.
Rupert Murdoch
As long as it’s making money I don’t care.
Rupert Murdoch
[On having a daughter at 70 years of age] It’s wonderful, it keeps me young.
Rupert Murdoch
You just gotta learn to take it. You just gotta shrug it off.
Rupert Murdoch
You have to be able to make decisions on your own.
Rupert Murdoch
If you have some gambling genes in you somewhere, you get some genetic enjoyment of risk.
Rupert Murdoch
Some people enjoy risk and some people hate it.
Rupert Murdoch
There should be no limit to diversity.
Rupert Murdoch
In motivating people, you’ve got to engage their minds and their hearts. It is good business to have an employee feel part of the entire effort… I motivate people, I hope by example – and perhaps by excitement, by having provocative ideas to make others feel involved.
Rupert Murdoch
That’s the thrill about being in the media, you can always do better.
Rupert Murdoch
There’s always a way to improve.
Rupert Murdoch
You hope for the best, but you’ve got to prepare for the worst.
Rupert Murdoch
I think you get the most competition when you just let market forces work.
Rupert Murdoch
[On Ted Turner] Ted started as a real redneck. Let’s be fair about this.
Rupert Murdoch
The tough thing was starting from nothing.
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We made a lot of mistakes on the way. We think we know what we’re doing now.
Rupert Murdoch
[On initial TV programming at Fox] We were just throwing programs at the wall more or less to see what would stick.
Rupert Murdoch
[On initial TV programming at Fox] When you did something a bit different it sort of worked. And then we said it was a great strategy to go for the younger audience.
Rupert Murdoch
You should do what you think is right.
Rupert Murdoch
[On the idea of becoming a politician] I got into newspapers it’s a lot more fun, a lot more interesting in many ways than sitting on the wrong side of parliament waiting ten years for your turn to come – which may never come.
Rupert Murdoch
It’s not a big deal getting onto the internet. It is a big deal having a good idea.
Rupert Murdoch
Corporate leaders know better than government officials the skills that people need to get ahead in the 21st century.
Rupert Murdoch
[On Myspace in 2006] I think it’s going to be a big commercial success.
Rupert Murdoch
[On Ipods] They’re a big enemy of the radio industry.
Rupert Murdoch
I can’t see people watching a movie on a three inch screen.
Rupert Murdoch
We need to do more with what we have.
Rupert Murdoch
The only good regulator is a dead regulator.
Rupert Murdoch
This is a middle-class city. Everybody in this country wants to get ahead, get a piece of the action. That’s the fundamental difference between the Old World and the New World. There’s not the self-improvement ethic in England that there is in this country. If you drop below that level, you’re talking about the ghettoes.
Rupert Murdoch
[On wanting to buy Time magazine in 1989] I want to be at the table and a player when the move the pieces around in America.
Rupert Murdoch
In the 18th century, Voltaire said that every man had two countries: his own and France. In the 20th century, that has come to be true of the United States.
Rupert Murdoch
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