Rupert Murdoch Quotes & Sayings

The current days of the Internet will soon be over. — Rupert Murdoch

I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good. — Rupert Murdoch

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

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. — Rupert Murdoch

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. — Rupert Murdoch

We're starting with our own carbon footprint. Not nothing. But much of what we're doing is already, or soon will be, little more than the standard way of doing business. We can do something that's unique, different from just any other company. We can set an example, and we can reach our audiences. Our audience's carbon footprint is 10,000 times bigger than ours. That's the carbon footprint we want to conquer. — Rupert Murdoch

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

Climate change has been going on as long as the planet is here, and there will always be a little bit of it. — Rupert Murdoch

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

Since when are Egyptians not white? All I know are. — Rupert Murdoch

When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right. — Rupert Murdoch

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

I was absolutely shocked, appalled and ashamed when I heard about the Milly Dowler case only two weeks ago. — Rupert Murdoch

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. — Rupert Murdoch

Bury your mistakes. — Rupert Murdoch

If you want to judge my thinking, look at The Sun. — Rupert Murdoch

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

My mother just died at 103, so that's a start. You should live 20 years longer than your parents. — Rupert Murdoch

Some of our businesses use more energy than others, but our strategy everywhere is the same.. first, reduce our use of energy as much as possible. Then, switch to renewable sources of power where it makes economic sense. And, over time, as a last resort, offset the emissions we can't avoid. — Rupert Murdoch

For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values. — Rupert Murdoch

Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars. — Rupert Murdoch

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? — Rupert Murdoch

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. — Rupert Murdoch

I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good. — Rupert Murdoch

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

If the sea level rises 6 inches, that's a big deal ... we can't mitigate that; we can't stop it. We've just got to stop building vast houses on seashores and go back a little bit. — Rupert Murdoch

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. — Rupert Murdoch

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

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. — Rupert Murdoch

People who watch 'Fox News,' you may say, and this is anecdotal, but they are passionate about it. In the most unlikely places, like down in Soho where I used to live, people would come up to me and thank me for it. People I didn't know from a bar of soap. People appreciate that at least they're being heard. It is much more watchable. — Rupert Murdoch

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. — Rupert Murdoch

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

Imagine if we succeed in inspiring our audiences to reduce their own impacts on climate change by just one percent. That would be like turning the State of California off for almost two months. — Rupert Murdoch

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. — Rupert Murdoch

The cold, commercial word 'market' disguises its human character - a market is a collection of our aspirations, exertions, choices and desires. — Rupert Murdoch

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

The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets. — Rupert Murdoch

I challenge anybody to show me an example of bias in Fox News Channel. — Rupert Murdoch

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

As with all politically lead governments, foreign investment is the slowest in the media section. Politicians are somewhat paranoid about the media but we still think it's worthwhile. — Rupert Murdoch

One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business. — Rupert Murdoch

I think you have a danger of regulating, putting regulations in place which will mean there will be no press in 10 years to regulate. — Rupert Murdoch

Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it? — Rupert Murdoch

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. — Rupert Murdoch

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. — Rupert Murdoch

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

I believe people will be watching their TV screens for a long time and that TV channels have a long-term life. — Rupert Murdoch

John Marks Templeton has achieved exemplary success in both business and philanthropy. For Looking Forward he has assembled a diverse and remarkable group of experts in their fields-including the environment, medicine, the physical sciences, religion, the family, and international relations-and contributed two stellar pieces as well. Together these essays dispel fashionable pessimism and show how the world can progress-and is progressing-toward a better future. — Rupert Murdoch

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. — Rupert Murdoch

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

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. — Rupert Murdoch

Crony capitalism is not capitalism - it is cronyism. — Rupert Murdoch

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. — Rupert Murdoch

You can't have a competitive, egalitarian meritocracy if only some of your citizens have the opportunity for a good education. — Rupert Murdoch

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. — Rupert Murdoch

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere. — Rupert Murdoch

Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary. — Rupert Murdoch

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. — Rupert Murdoch

People begin to resent the rich only when they conclude that the system is rigged. — Rupert Murdoch

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

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. — Rupert Murdoch

Most newspaper companies still have their heads in the sand, but other media companies are aggressive. — Rupert Murdoch

We started Fox when everyone said it couldn't be done. — Rupert Murdoch

I've operated and launched newspapers all over the world. — Rupert Murdoch

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. — Rupert Murdoch

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. — Rupert Murdoch

In a world as competitive as ours, the child who does not get a decent education is condemned to the fringes of society. I think all Australians agree that this is intolerable. So we must demand as much of our schools as we do of our sports teams - and ensure that they keep the Australian dream alive for every child. — Rupert Murdoch

We could make a difference just by holding our emissions steady as our businesses continue to grow. But that doesn't seem to be enough: we want to go all the way to zero. Today, I am announcing our intention to be carbon neutral, across all our businesses, by 2010. — Rupert Murdoch

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. — Rupert Murdoch

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

We have no intention of failing. The only question is how great a success we'll have. — Rupert Murdoch

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow. — Rupert Murdoch

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

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

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks. — Rupert Murdoch

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. — Rupert Murdoch

At News Corporation, we have a history of challenging media orthodoxies. — Rupert Murdoch

I have never asked a prime minister for anything — Rupert Murdoch

My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different. — Rupert Murdoch

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. — Rupert Murdoch

Content is not just king, it is the emperor of all things electronic. — Rupert Murdoch

News Corporation, today, reaches people at home and at work ... when they're thinking ... when they're laughing ... and when they are making choices that have enormous impact. The unique potential.. and duty.. of a media company are to help its audiences connect to the issues that define our time. — Rupert Murdoch

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

Can we change the world? No, but hell, we can all try. — Rupert Murdoch

I did not come all this way not to interfere — Rupert Murdoch

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. — Rupert Murdoch

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

ESPN is a very, very good operation, and it's a gold mine. It's an even bigger gold mine than Fox News. — Rupert Murdoch

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

I don't mind what people say about me. I've never read a book about myself. — Rupert Murdoch

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. — Rupert Murdoch

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. — Rupert Murdoch

We must have sweeping, generous immigration reform, make existing law- abiding Hispanics welcome. Most are hard working family people. — Rupert Murdoch

Elections are when you have to make a choice. Perfection not often attainable! — Rupert Murdoch

It's been a long career, and I've made some mistakes along the way. — Rupert Murdoch

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. — Rupert Murdoch

The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. — Rupert Murdoch

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. — Rupert Murdoch

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. — Rupert Murdoch

We certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox ... and we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line. — Rupert Murdoch