Rupert Murdoch Quotes Page 2

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“No leader will fight for values, for principles, if their government is a value-free vacuum. Moral relativism is morally wrong.”

“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.”

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

“Online advertising is increasingly only a fraction of what is being lost from print advertising, and it is under constant pressure.”

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

“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.”

“People begin to resent the rich only when they conclude that the system is rigged.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Thankfully, Australia has emerged from its inauspicious colonial beginnings to become a proud nation, a nation that overcame those primeval prejudices.”

“The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.”

“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.”

“The digital native doesn't send a letter to the editor anymore. She goes online and starts a blog.”

“The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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?”

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

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

“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.”