In order to succeed, you have to live dangerously.. as long as the danger is rationally accepted and as long as the rewards far outweigh the risk.

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition.

Sometimes divorce is better than marriage

Opportunity does not knock. You have to find it

We all have to decide how we are going to fail, by not going far enough or by going too far.

I've always had that obsessive will to win and a commitment to excellence.

At the time we acquired Viacom, everyone said I had overpaid. But even at today's depressed prices, that investment is worth billions. Everyone was saying MTV was a fad. I knew better.

Great success is built on failure, frustration, even catastrophe.

One doesn't accept bad challenges. Part of it is always the risk-taking without seeing that the risks are rational and the rewards are commensurate.. are more than commensurate.. with the risks.

I listen to my daughter. I listen to Paula, but I make the decisions. The decision to say goodbye to Cruise was mine.

The ability to differentiate between life challenges and who you are at the core is everything. A failed business, relationship or dream doesn’t make you a failure as a person.

The combination of ammonia and chloride can be lethal but I've discovered it can work miracles as long as you keep telling yourself, "I want to love, I want to live...

Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. Advance with it!

All you have in business is your reputation - so it's very important that you keep your word.

I love an act that makes fun of the situation, and of course makes fun of yourself. That's important, you can't take yourself too seriously.

I am ready for love but I'm not desperately seeking it.

Women and men basically want the same things. Trust. Respect. Support. Love. Room to grow and a major physical attraction.

Experience by itself teaches nothing... Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence, without theory, there is no learning.

Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.