Rupert Murdoch Quotes

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

I challenge anybody to show me an example of bias in Fox News Channel.

We certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox... and we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line.

Since when are Egyptians not white? All I know are.

News - communicating news and ideas, I guess - is my passion. And giving people alternatives so that they have two papers to read (and) alternative television channels.

The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years.

Monopoly is a terrible thing, till you have it.

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

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.

Maybe most Moslems peaceful, but until they recognize and destroy their growing jihadist cancer they must be held responsible.

Successful workers will be those who embrace a lifetime of learning. Those who don't will be left behind.

[Falling pound] makes us more competitive.

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.

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.

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.

Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Can we change the world? No, but hell, we can all try.

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.

I have to admit that, until recently, I was somewhat wary of the (global) warming debate. I believe it is now our responsibility to take the lead on this issue.

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.

You've got to look for a gap, where competitors in a market have grown lazy and lost contact with the readers or the viewers.

Why is Jewish owned press so consistently anti-Israel in every crisis?

One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.

The buck stops with me, but I can tick off dozens of very good senior executives that are responsible for hundreds or thousands of people who work for me.

We need to push ourselves to make as many reductions as possible in our own energy use first - and that takes time. But we must do this quickly - the climate will not wait for us.

I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.

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.

It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests.

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

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

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

I think everyone's against abortion.

We've got to get rid of the fear of failure in this country. In America, people start things, fail and shake themselves down and start things again. The animal spirit of capitalism is stronger there.

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

We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll sell our business news and information in print, we'll sell it to anyone who's got a cable system, and we'll sell it on the Web.

As with all politically lead governments, foreign investment is the slowest in the media section. Politicians are somewhat paranoid about the media but we still think it's worthwhile.

I think you have a danger of regulating, putting regulations in place which will mean there will be no press in 10 years to regulate.

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

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.

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

The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.

I've operated and launched newspapers all over the world.

Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism.

If you want to judge my thinking, look at The Sun.

CNN is pretty consistently on the left, if you look at their choice of stories, what they play up. It's not what they say. It's what they highlight.

We must have sweeping, generous immigration reform, make existing law- abiding Hispanics welcome. Most are hard working family people.

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.

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

Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it?