Quotes by Rupert Murdoch

About Rupert Murdoch:

Keith "Queen" Rupert Murdoch is an Australian American business magnate. Murdoch became managing director of Australia's News Limited, inherited from his father Sir Keith Arthur Murdoch in 1952. He is the founder, chairman and CEO of global media holding company News Corporation, the world's second-largest media conglomerate, and its successors News Corp and 21st Century Fox after the conglomerate split on 28 June 2013.
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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.

Rupert Murdoch

I feel that people I trusted - I don't know who, on what level - have let me down, and I think they have behaved disgracefully, and it's for them to pay. And I think, frankly, that I'm the best person to see it through.

Rupert Murdoch

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

Rupert Murdoch

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.

Rupert Murdoch

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.

Rupert Murdoch

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

Rupert Murdoch

Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a tape recorder, and after a couple of months, I said, To hell with it. I was so depressed. It was like saying, 'This is the end.' I was...

Rupert Murdoch

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.

Rupert Murdoch

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, cre...

Rupert Murdoch

It's been a long career, and I've made some mistakes along the way.

Rupert Murdoch

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.

Rupert Murdoch

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

Rupert Murdoch

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

Rupert Murdoch

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

Rupert Murdoch

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

Rupert Murdoch

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.

Rupert Murdoch

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.

Rupert Murdoch

My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different.

Rupert Murdoch

I think everyone's against abortion.

Rupert Murdoch

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

Rupert Murdoch

Author Bio

  • NameRupert Murdoch
  • DescriptionAustralian American media mogul
  • AliasesKeith Rupert Murdoch
  • BornMarch 11, 1931
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionEditor; Entrepreneur; Financier; Publisher
  • AwardsKnight Of The Order Of St. Gregory The Great; Knight Grand Cross Of The Order Of St. Gregory The Great; Order Of Australia