Rupert Murdoch

Notable Quotes



The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

From Rupert Murdoch

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.

From 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.

From 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.

From 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.

From 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.

From Rupert Murdoch

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

From 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.

From 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.

From 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.

From Rupert Murdoch

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