Rupert Murdoch Quotes (71 Quotes)

We see opportunities to participate in media developments across Europe.

We could acquire a (Web) search technology tomorrow. That's not necessarily the right way to go.

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.

This merger continues the strengthening of our various marketing opportunities to the benefit of advertisers who use all types of vehicles to get their message across to consumers whether it be through television, print or other marketing operations.

The reality is that we've seen the last of any serious price wars for a long time. I don't think any of the others could afford it, certainly not on a long-term basis.

become a leading and profitable Internet presence.

And he said it was just full of hate of America and gloating about our troubles. And that was his government, well his government-owned thing,

I don't think this deal today affects the timing of the IPO. There may be other things that affect the timing,

If I listened to some of my critics, News Corp would still be a small newspaper company in Australia.

He was the most successful businessman of our generation.

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.

From media and telecommunications to I.T. and banking, Israeli technological advances are key contributors to the progress and strength of the global economy.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

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.

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.

The internet is the fastest growing advertising market,

This is a strategic move to further strengthen our book publishing business.

These shares don't carry rights and requirements. On the other hand, John's a friend and always would be welcome on our board.

This is a time of fundamental change.

We have furthered our strategy to leverage the unique competencies the company enjoys with its news, sports and entertainment assets to create a leading internet destination,

Everything we're putting in related to deal today is pretty much at market price. So that would be about right value for company, 38 billion up to 40 billion,

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

And, while we faced comparisons to a record quarter year ago at our film studio, we released a number of successful films this quarter each of which should generate strong returns later this fiscal year when distributed in home entertainment.

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.

As a broadcaster, he had an uncanny knack of knowing what people across the country were thinking.

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.

Stephen Mayne, a shareholder, asked at the meeting, held in New York's Hudson Theatre Why are you so paranoid about John Malone He is a great thinker. It would be great to have him on the board. ... I am not going to make any comment. I have a great relationship with Mr Malone and I'm going to keep it that way.

We are in advanced negotiations to buy a controlling interest in what we think is a wonderful search engine, but (for what) you will think is an insignificant price,

Hopefully we will continue to improve our profits and improve our dividend.

Tony Blair ... told me yesterday that he was in Delhi last week and he turned on the BBC World Service to see what was happening in New Orleans, and he said it was just full of hate at America and gloating about our troubles. That's pretty general throughout Europe today.

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.

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

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.

We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll sell our business news and information in print, we'll sell it to anyone who's got a cable system, and we'll sell it on the Web.

Here (in the United States), we don't know. We may be forming a company with partners to build something out here that would give you broadband.

Certainly I don't know anybody under 30 who has ever looked at a classified advertisement in a newspaper.

Is there any other industry in this country which seeks to presume so completely to give the customer what he does not want.

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

Both Liberty and News understand and appreciate the advantages to resolve our situation expeditiously,

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.

For the second consecutive quarter, all of our primary content businesses, with the exception of film, generated double-digit growth. Television, newspapers, cable programming and book publishing all posted sharp operating income increases.

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.

Our performance this quarter reflects the sustained momentum we have generated across the majority of our businesses.

We have a very civil relationship, but I just gotta watch him so that, in the interests of all shareholders, you can't have someone creep up and get control of the company without paying a premium.

There are going to be so many different ways to look at a movie or read a newspaper. I think we are on the eve of an era of a Golden Age for media, all these wonderful inventions are nothing if you can't put something on them. They have got to have content.

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

It has the fastest growing audience. More importantly, broadband proliferation is at last real, meaning the opportunity is now to grow exponentially the distribution of our vast video content in news, sports and general entertainment.

I would really like to know a little bit more about what his vision is for the future of this country and his people. Some facts and some real policies rather than just a lot of almost throw-away positions they take to change their image.

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