Quotes By Rupert Murdoch

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

My worry about the New York Times is that it's got the only position as a national elitist general-interest paper. So the network news picks up its cues from the Times. And local papers do too. It has a huge influence. And we'd love to challenge it.

I think everyone's against abortion.

If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I'm not looking for a legacy, and you'll never shut up the critics. I've been around 50 years. 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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don't want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I'm just not ready to stop, to die.

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 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.

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