It was always tough, but today we are in the throes of something we have never seen in our history. It's clear in recent times the market is looking for a bottom.

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.

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.

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.

Happiness is a beautiful feeling. It is a beautiful mind, and a peaceful mind

Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.

We may bend sometimes, but we don't break. There's a lot of character in that room

To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.

If the Obama administration responds with an even harsher hand against me, they can be assured that they'll soon find themselves facing an equally harsh public response.

If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale; Look down with an utter contempt upon butter, And never touch bread till its toasted--or stale.

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

Let me get this straight. Your table ran away because you polished it with Windex?

For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.

Thought is action in rehearsal.