Rupert Murdoch Quotes

Rupert Murdoch (48)

Birth:	11th March, 1931
Nationality:	American, Australian
Profession:	Chairman, Founder

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Keith Rupert Murdoch is an Australian American media mogul. Murdoch became managing director of Australia's News Limited, inherited from his father, in 1952. He is the founder, Chairman and CEO of global media holding company News Corporation, the world's second-largest media conglomerate.

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• 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.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

  Tags in Nice, Live

• I am amazed that CNN can’t get its act together.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Together, Act

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

  Rupert Murdoch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Television, Newspaper

• 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.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Same, Place

• 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.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change, Successful

• 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.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Important, Daily

• 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.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Topics in Country

• 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.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Topics in Family, Father, Mother

• 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.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Home, Wife

• 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.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Look, Pretty

• 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.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Government

• 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.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Support

• 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.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Topics in Challenge

  Tags in New

• 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.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Day, Saying

• 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.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Quality

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

  Rupert Murdoch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Important, Reputation

• 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.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Topics in Attitude

  Tags in Travel

• 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.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Start, Media

• 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.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Game

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

  Rupert Murdoch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wrong, Hear