Rupert Murdoch
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.Collection: Technology
The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.Collection: Business
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.Collection: Business
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.Collection: Business
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.Collection: Attitude
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.Collection: Motivational
I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.Collection: Family
The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.Collection: Change
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.Collection: Change
When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.Collection: Change
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.
We certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox... and we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line.
Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.
I'm not ashamed of any of my papers at all and I'm rather sick of snobs that tell us that they're bad papers, snobs who only read papers that no one else wants. I doubt if they read many papers at all.
I've operated and launched newspapers all over the world.
I was brought up in a publishing home, a newspaper man's home, and was excited by that, I suppose. I saw that life at close range and, after the age of ten or twelve, never really considered any other.
My mother just died at 103, so that's a start. You should live 20 years longer than your parents.
Now if you look at the London 'Times,' you'll find that with quite a number of the photographs, you touch them, and they turn into videos. I think newspapers come alive that way. We talk about 'papers.' We should cut out the word 'paper,' you know? It's 'news organizations.'
Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary.
At News Corporation, we have a history of challenging media orthodoxies.
The digital native doesn't send a letter to the editor anymore. She goes online and starts a blog.
You can't have a competitive, egalitarian meritocracy if only some of your citizens have the opportunity for a good education.
We started Fox when everyone said it couldn't be done.
Online advertising is increasingly only a fraction of what is being lost from print advertising, and it is under constant pressure.
The press is the only institution that is truly accountable. The founding fathers put the First Amendment first for a reason.
People begin to resent the rich only when they conclude that the system is rigged.
The cold, commercial word 'market' disguises its human character - a market is a collection of our aspirations, exertions, choices and desires.
We all know growth is absolutely vital to a free society. No one should want Australia to be a stag-nation: a nation with a stagnant economy and stagnant aspirations.
I was born in Australia and am proud of my Australian provenance, but I am now an American. Like so many naturalized citizens, I felt that I was an American before I formally became one.
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.
A lot of people are very happy to read their newspaper either on their iPad or - startlingly and faster and faster the figures go up - on their telephone, on their smart phone.
ESPN is a very, very good operation, and it's a gold mine. It's an even bigger gold mine than Fox News.
I believe people will be watching their TV screens for a long time and that TV channels have a long-term life.
People are playing games on their TV, young men are, and people are shopping... they are not watching their news channels, but they are using their TVs for other things.
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.
People who watch 'Fox News,' you may say, and this is anecdotal, but they are passionate about it. In the most unlikely places, like down in Soho where I used to live, people would come up to me and thank me for it. People I didn't know from a bar of soap. People appreciate that at least they're being heard. It is much more watchable.
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.
When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right.
I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible.
I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.
I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.
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.
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.
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.
My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different.
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.
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.
Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.
Thankfully, Australia has emerged from its inauspicious colonial beginnings to become a proud nation, a nation that overcame those primeval prejudices.
I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good.