Roy Thomson Quotes & Sayings

I have a magpie mind. I like anything that glitters. — Roy Thomson

If you want to live and you want to prosper, you've got to be ambitious. You've got to be ready to sacrifice leisure and pleasure, and you've got to plan ahead. I was forty years old before I had any money at all. But these things don't happen overnight. Now, how many people are there who will wait that long to be successful, and work all the time? Not very many. Maybe they're right. Maybe I'm a bloody fool. But I don't think I am. — Roy Thomson

I've got money so I'm a Conservative. — Roy Thomson

You carry your country with you, it's part of your baggage. — Roy Thomson

I buy newspapers to make money to buy more newspapers to make more money. — Roy Thomson

As for editorial content, that's the stuff you separate the ads with. — Roy Thomson

Like having your own licence to print money. — Roy Thomson