Rupert Murdoch Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

Now if you look at the London 'Times,' you'll find that with quite a number of the photographs, you touch them, and they turn into videos. I think newspapers come alive that way. We talk about 'papers.' We should cut out the word 'paper,' you know? It's 'news organizations.'

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

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.

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

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

At its core, a fair and just society is one where opportunity is open to all - not just those at the top.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.

I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible.

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.

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

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

While we reduce our own carbon footprint we will encourage the companies who truck our DVDs and newspapers, sell us paper, and provide an enormous range of products and services.. to all contribute.

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

I now wear a Jawbone. This is a bracelet that keeps track of how I sleep, move and eat - transmitting that information to the cloud. It allows me to track and maintain my health much better.

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

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.

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.

I was brought up in a publishing home, a newspaper man's home, and was excited by that, I suppose. I saw that life at close range and, after the age of ten or twelve, never really considered any other.

SHIT, OR GET OFF THE POT

Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely.

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

I have never asked a prime minister for anything

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

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.

From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they want.

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.

Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.

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.

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

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.

Why is Jewish owned press so consistently anti-Israel in every crisis?

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.

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

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.

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?

Successful workers will be those who embrace a lifetime of learning. Those who don't will be left behind.

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.

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.

Since when are Egyptians not white? All I know are.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Bury your mistakes.

I think we've been an agent for change, everywhere, and I think change frightens people. They're going nicely in what seems like a settled industry, and someone comes in and says "I can do this better. It doesn't matter how nice that other one is." That's one of the distinguishing points of our acquisitions.

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

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

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.

Becoming carbon neutral is only the beginning. The climate problem will not be solved by one company reducing its emissions to zero, and it won't be solved by one government acting alone. The climate problem will not be solved without mass participation by the general public in countries around the globe.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

If you're in the media, particularly newspapers, you are in the thick of all the interesting things that are going on in a community, and I can't imagine any other life that one would want to dedicate oneself to.

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

The current days of the Internet will soon be over.

I did not come all this way not to interfere

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Climate change and energy use are global problems. News Corp is a global company. Our operations affect the environment all over the world.