Rupert Murdoch Quotes
200 Rupert Murdoch Quotes
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[On making Myspace] There was no-one in our company who was clever enough to do that.
Rupert Murdoch
[Comment in 2006 on whether he waited to see how the internet developed before he jumped in] No we got carried away like everyone else back in the last 90’s and we lost a couple of hundred million in different things.
Rupert Murdoch
I think broadband is going to be ubiquitous throughout the world. It’s just a matter of time.
Rupert Murdoch
[On a suggestion that he buy AOL] I don’t think they’d consider my price reasonable.
Rupert Murdoch
I think people still want the big movie experience in the theatre.
Rupert Murdoch
[On John Malone coming onto the share register] I was asleep at the switch… We should have had some buy back provision in place, but we didn’t.
Rupert Murdoch
[Proudest of] A combination of intuition, and innovation and opportunism.
Rupert Murdoch
We made few bets that haven’t turned out great. But for the most part it’s been great.
Rupert Murdoch
[On fighting the unions –‘Was it a big risk for you?’] In a sense I was betting the company. Yes.
Rupert Murdoch
[In 2006] We are going to make money out of the New York Post. I think we will… In a couple of years.
Rupert Murdoch
[In 2006] The Walmarts and the discount stores and the specialty stores at the other end have really destroyed the department store business. Except for one or two big ones in the city.
Rupert Murdoch
[In 2006 on things in China moving to high-tech] The number of people manufacturing in China is even going down a little bit.
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[In 2006] If you think of China as being cheap – go to Vietnam and see.
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It is a moment of opportunity.
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[On his political power] I would say it’s greatly overstated.
Rupert Murdoch
Ignorant, ugly and wrong.
Rupert Murdoch
[On one politician] I don’t know what substance is there or what he really believes in.
Rupert Murdoch
[In 2006] If you worry about any economic things you worry about the looming social security, medicare problems coming up. And that’s big. That can be fixed, but you’re going to need both parties coming together.
Rupert Murdoch
I attended boarding school outside Melbourne. Bucolic and idyllic it wasn't. So I made myself a promise. I swore that I would never become one of those fogeys who goes on and on about how his schooldays were the best days of his life.
Rupert Murdoch
Despite spending more and more money, our children seem to be learning less and less…
Rupert Murdoch
Too many children are socialised to fail.
Rupert Murdoch
The children of poor people always have fewer options than the elite. That's true whether you live in Sydney or Shanghai or San Francisco.
Rupert Murdoch
For every Steve Jobs who drops out of college and founds a company like Apple, for every Jim Clark who leaves high school and starts up Netscape, for every Peter Allen who drops out and becomes a successful entertainer, there are tens of thousands of others for whom leaving school early means shutting the door forever on opportunity—and permanent condemnation to an underclass.
Rupert Murdoch
You’ve got to watch what you say.
Rupert Murdoch
I’ve always had spasms of trying to stay fit but it’s never lasted very long.
Rupert Murdoch
[In 2006] When an older man marries a younger woman it is a revitalising experience.
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[In 2006] My mothers ninety-seven and there’s nothing wrong with her brain.
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[On being named Keith Rupert Murdoch] My father wanted Keith and my mother wanted Rupert and she was the stronger character.
Rupert Murdoch
[On his children succeeding him] They’ve got to prove themselves too.
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If I go under a bus tomorrow it’ll be the four of them that will have to decide who should lead them.
Rupert Murdoch
[On his father originally leaving him the Adelaide newspaper] I had a wonderful opportunity to make a difference to have a career where you make a difference to things, and I’d like to leave that to all of my children.
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[In 2006 on betting the whole farm.] No, I can say that honestly. No it came close, very close…
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[On son Lachlan Murdoch in 2006] Lachlan has and still has this intense love of newspapers… But also has a very intense love of Australia.
Rupert Murdoch
I run an open door policy. Any one can walk into my office… that is the way you keep in touch.
Rupert Murdoch
[On legacy in 2006] I’d like to be remembered if I am at all as someone who was a catalyst for change for the good…
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I think change is very good, very often. Not necessarily always.
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We have to keep changing and modernising.
Rupert Murdoch
[At age 75 on how long he would like to keep running News Limited for] Forever! As long as I enjoy it. As long as I can play a larger part in driving the company forward.
Rupert Murdoch
I just want to live forever, I enjoy myself too much.
Rupert Murdoch
The buck stops with you.
Rupert Murdoch
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