Rupert Murdoch Quotes

American - Publisher Born: March 11, 1931

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

Change Small World Slow

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.

Heart Great Mind Words

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.

Motivational Hope People You

The press is the only institution that is truly accountable. The founding fathers put the First Amendment first for a reason.

Only Reason First First Amendment

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

Important Reputation More Last

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

Leader Fight Government Moral

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

Mistakes Long Way Career

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

Education Good Opportunity You

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.

I Am Proud Born Australia

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.

Day Business Man People

Crony capitalism is not capitalism - it is cronyism.

I think everyone's against abortion.

Think Abortion Everyone Against

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.

Reflection Thought Quality Television

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.

Change Technology Business Past

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

Beginning News Want Giving

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

Think You Television Newspaper

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

Father Me Media Different

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.

Education Sports Child Think

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

Why Something Order Spend

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

Change Climate Change Long Always

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

People Rich Only Begin

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.

Business Money Live Enjoy

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.

Business Time Me Curiosity

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.

Health Sleep Me Better

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.

People Internet Media Start

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

Technology Threat Everywhere Advances

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