Rupert Murdoch

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

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

Nothing but hard work, taking your opportunities, taking your advantages. (How Murdoch has achieved his success).

Rupert Murdoch

I don’t run anything for respectability.

Rupert Murdoch

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

Rupert Murdoch

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

Rupert Murdoch

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.

Rupert Murdoch

Success in the online world will, I think, beget greater success in the printed medium. By streamlining our operations and becoming more nimble. By changing the way we write and edit stories. By listening more intently to our readers.

Rupert Murdoch

For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values.

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

The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. Someone the other day said, “It’s the biggest thing since Gutenberg,” and then someone else said “No, it’s the biggest thing since the invention of writing.”

Rupert Murdoch

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

Rupert Murdoch

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.

Rupert Murdoch

I believe too many of us editors and reporters are out of touch with our readers. Too often, the question we ask is “Do we have the story? rather than “Does anyone want the story?”

Rupert Murdoch

The digital native doesn’t send a letter to the editor anymore. She goes online, and starts a blog

Rupert Murdoch

What I worry about much more is our ability to make the necessary cultural changes to meet the new demands of the digital native.

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

Most newspaper companies still have their heads in the sand, but other media companies are aggressive.

Rupert Murdoch

News…communicating news and ideas, I guess.. is my passion. And giving people alternatives so that they have two papers to read and alternative television channels.

Rupert Murdoch

The buck stops with me, but I can tick off dozens of very good senior executives that are responsible for hundreds or thousands of people who work for me.

Rupert Murdoch

You’ve got to look for a gap, where competitors in a market have grown lazy and lost contact with the readers or the viewers.

Rupert Murdoch

I think we’ve been an agent for change, everywhere, and I think change frightens people. They’re going nicely in what seems like a settled industry, and someone comes in and says: “I can do this better. It doesn’t matter how nice that other one is.” That’s one of the distinguishing points of our acquisitions.

Rupert Murdoch

Size and synergies between the different segments of the company matter. As far as we are concerned, the Internet is broadening our opportunity, as well as for other big media companies with huge resources in sports, entertainment and news. There’s just more opportunity.

Rupert Murdoch

My ventures in media are not as important to me as spreading my personal political beliefs.

Rupert Murdoch

In this country, Fox News has gotten a big, big audience that appreciates its independence. There’s passion there, and it’s pushed. … It has taken a long time, but it has now changed CNN because it has challenged them — they’ve become more centrist in their choice of stories. They’re trying to become, using our phrase, more fair and balanced.

Rupert Murdoch

What does libertarian mean? As much individual responsibility as possible, as little government as possible, as few rules as possible. But I’m not saying it should be taken to the absolute limit.

Rupert Murdoch