Rupert Murdoch Quotes

American - Publisher Born: March 11, 1931

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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

Motivational, Hope, People, Ideas, You

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

Heart, Great, Words, Mind, Journalism

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

Business, Man, Day, Risks, People, Doing

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

Government, Believe, Free, Conservative

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

Live, Creative, World, Speak, America

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

Technology, Everywhere, Threat, Advances

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

Change, World, Small, Slow, Fast, Will

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

Family, Father, Mother, Son, Curiosity

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

People, Internet, Media, Start, Want

Bury your mistakes. Rupert Murdoch

Mistakes, Your, Bury

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. Rupert Murdoch

Health, Sleep, Me, Better, Information

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

First Amendment, Reason, Only, First

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

Done, Fox, Said, Everyone, Started

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

Education, Sports, Society, Child, World

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

Business, Game, Information, News, Lift

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

Think, Television, You, Newspaper, Up

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

Right, Wrong, Being, Going, Hear, Insist

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. Rupert Murdoch

Day, Writing, End, Me, Saying, Hell

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

Best, Possible, Transparent, Just, Felt

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got. Rupert Murdoch

Change, Proud, You, Enemies, Got, Make

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. Rupert Murdoch

Life, Community, Media, Interesting, You

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

Education, Good, Opportunity, You, Only

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? Rupert Murdoch

Children, Health, Grandchildren, People

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

People, Rich, Begin, Only, System

The CNN international is a different service - it is even more leftist and anti-American than CNN is. That's their business, that's fine, but it can't be getting any revenue. There is no cable network that I know of anywhere in the world other than in America that pays them for their products. Rupert Murdoch

Service, Business, World, America, Know

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

Attitude, Travel, Language, You, Without

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