Quotes By Rupert Murdoch

The buck stops with the guy who signs the cheques.

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.

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.

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

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

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.

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.

We have no intention of failing. The only question is how great a success we'll have.

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.

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

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.

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.

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.

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

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.

I can go into restaurants and a whole table will get up and clap if they recognize me, because they love Fox News. Other places - or even the same place - people will turn the other way.

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.

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.

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.