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

Rupert Murdoch Quotes

American - Publisher Born: March 11, 1931

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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

Mind, Always, Move

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, Motivating

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

Change, Small, Very

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

Beginning, Reason, News

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

Proud, Nation, Prejudices

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, Alive, I Think

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

Change, Proud, Catalyst

I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good. Rupert Murdoch

Change, Like, Being

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

Amendment, Accountable

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. Rupert Murdoch

Media, Independent, Provide

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

Everywhere, Proved, Advances

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, Die, Couple

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

Were, Economist, Created

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

Feel, Nation, Policies

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

Book, Mind, Read

In my life, I have learned that most people want the same thing. They are not driven by class resentment. What they want most is to make a better life for themselves and their families - and to know that the opportunities for their children will be better than they were for themselves. Rupert Murdoch

Life, My Life, Same Thing

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

Start, Want, Newspaper

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

Right, Going, Being

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. Rupert Murdoch

Think, Country, About

I'm not looking for a legacy, and you'll never shut up the critics. I've been around 50 years. When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got. Rupert Murdoch

Legacy, Been, Shut

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. Rupert Murdoch

Love, About, Huge Influence

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

Best, Possible, Felt

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

Television, Possible, Makes

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, Doing, Hours

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

Curious, Waste, Certainly

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

New, Goes, Some

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