Rupert Murdoch Quotes
200 Rupert Murdoch Quotes
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I’m paranoid enough to see an agenda every day.
Rupert Murdoch
It’s very hard. Everything is a bit subjective.
Rupert Murdoch
[On how we select our stories] There is no doubt… who’s side we’re on and who we think is good and who we think is evil.
Rupert Murdoch
Not using the word terrorist shows bias.
Rupert Murdoch
We are not neutral when it comes to war.
Rupert Murdoch
[On Ted Turner] I still have a soft spot for him. He was a visionary, he did have the guts to start CNN.
Rupert Murdoch
We had to hurry up before anyone else did the same thing.
Rupert Murdoch
[On his toughest competition] I’ve had many in my life.
Rupert Murdoch
The newspaper wars in Sydney really blooded me for ten years.
Rupert Murdoch
In Britain there was tremendous competition everywhere, but in the early days when I was there you only had to get to work 8 or 9 hours a day five days a week and you were doing twice as much as your competitors. I shouldn’t have said that. But it’s true.
Rupert Murdoch
We’ve had rough times. My biggest competitor in Britain in a sense were the unions.
Rupert Murdoch
We were the first company in the private sector in Britain in 50 years to have a big fight with the unions. And to take them on and win.
Rupert Murdoch
[On the Britain strike] It was amazing that no one was killed… We had to have barbed wire fencing put in around us. 1200 police… 300 on horseback…
Rupert Murdoch
[On initially coming to the US being the toughest challenge there] We came here with very few resources. We were much smaller, a much smaller company. The tough thing was starting from nothing.
Rupert Murdoch
Starting the Fox Network took longer than it should have, or that we want it to, or expected it to.
Rupert Murdoch
We were pretty short of money…
Rupert Murdoch
It was very hard as a new comer.
Rupert Murdoch
[On John Malone] I think he is the most brilliant financial mind – as a financial engineer… He’s a shrewd investor.
Rupert Murdoch
[On talking about someone having sold a business wanting it back] He won’t want it back. He’d have to go to work to run it!
Rupert Murdoch
I’ve been pretty much a loner.
Rupert Murdoch
[In 2001] We’re a pretty tight family.
Rupert Murdoch
[On being a loner] I think my father taught me that.
Rupert Murdoch
When you’re in the media business you don’t want to be a joiner of clubs. You don’t want to put yourself in a position where you can be subjected to any sort of pressure about what you’re publishing, what you’re saying publicly. You should do what you think is right.
Rupert Murdoch
You have to resist all… forms of pressure…
Rupert Murdoch
It’s right to be somewhat of a loner – to keep your distance.
Rupert Murdoch
[On the idea of being a politician in an opposition party] What can you really do there?
Rupert Murdoch
I think you can do great good in the media and you can do it everyday. And you can also have the thrill of being involved.
Rupert Murdoch
I know I’m thought to be ruthless. I can be.
Rupert Murdoch
The buck stops with you. If you newspaper starts to go bad or lose a lot of money, loses it’s place or it’s respect in the community – your editor doesn’t get blamed – you get blamed.
Rupert Murdoch
[Comment in 2001 on betting the ranch] Oh sure. Several times.
Rupert Murdoch
[Comment in 2001] I bet the ranch when I came out of Adelaide and went to Sydney. I bet the ranch when we bought into London… with the old News of the Word which was a dead old company at the time. I didn’t realise that I just thought it was an opportunity to get over there.
Rupert Murdoch
[Comment in 2001] Bet the ranch with the London Sun. Certainly bet the ranch with the Times and the biggest bet was the fight with the unions.
Rupert Murdoch
Dealing with the bureaucracy of General Motors, in an old company like that – things take a long time.
Rupert Murdoch
The world is full of opportunities.
Rupert Murdoch
Keep our powder dry.
Rupert Murdoch
[In 2006] I think it’s very early days yet in the internet.
Rupert Murdoch
[In 2006] People laughed at me when I bought Myspace.
Rupert Murdoch
[On Myspace] Viacom was going to do a deal the next day and we made the lawyers work all weekend.
Rupert Murdoch
[On Myspace] Someone else didn’t appreciate it. We had no idea it was going to grow so fast.
Rupert Murdoch
[In 2006] I hope it’s a golden era. It is certainly one with golden opportunities.
Rupert Murdoch
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