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, Mind, Words, Journalism

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

Change, Small, World, Slow, Will, Fast

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

Reputation, Important, More, Last, Than

I think everyone's against abortion. Rupert Murdoch

Abortion, Think, Everyone, Against

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

Only, Reason, First, First Amendment

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, People, Risks, Doing

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

Reflection, Thought, Quality, Television

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, Me, Sleep, Better, Cloud, Eat

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, You, Television, Newspaper, Up

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, Easy

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

Father, Me, Media, Different, Left

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

Technology, Everywhere, Threat, Advances

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

Best, Me, People, Think, Feel, Down

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, Think

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

Change, Technology, Business, Past, Fall

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

Business, Money, Live, Enjoy, Nice, High

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

Business, Time, Me, Curiosity, Sometimes

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. Rupert Murdoch

Daily, Look, You, Understand, Important

You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own. Rupert Murdoch

Strong, You, Decisions, Own, Turn, Your

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

Business, Signs, Guy, Who, Buck, Checks

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, You, Language, English

I am amazed that CNN can't get its act together. Rupert Murdoch

I Am, Together, Act, Get, Am, Amazed

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

Change, You, Place, Leaving, Without

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

Wrong, Right, Something, Being, Hear

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

Love, Home, Wife, Children, Keep Going

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