Rupert Murdoch Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”