Rupert Murdoch Quotes

• I have heard cynics who say he’s a very political old monk shuffling around in Gucci shoes.

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• I did not come all this way not to interfere.

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

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  Tags in Order, Spend

• When you’re a catalyst for change, you make enemies – and I’m proud of the ones I’ve got.

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  Tags in Change, Proud

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

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  Tags in Line, Consistent

• The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.

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  Tags in Government, Needs

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

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  Tags in Makes, Possible

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

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  Topics in Business

  Tags in Political, Support

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

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  Topics in Father

  Tags in Different, Sense

• Money is not the motivating force. It’s nice to have money, but I don’t live high. What I enjoy is running the business.

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  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

  Tags in Nice, Live

• Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely.

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  Tags in Live, Mean

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

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  Topics in Mistake

  Tags in Career

• 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.

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  Tags in Day, Working

• I’ve operated and launched newspapers all over the world.

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  Tags in Newspapers, Launched

• 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.

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  Tags in Change, Proud

• 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.

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  Tags in Bad, Doubt

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

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  Tags in Weather, Economists

• 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.

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  Topics in Family, Mother

  Tags in Crazy

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

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  Tags in Change, Remembered

• 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.

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  Tags in Place, Danger

Rupert Murdoch (50)

Birth:	11th March, 1931
Nationality:	American, Australian
Profession:	Chairman, Founder

About

Keith Rupert Murdoch is an Australian American media mogul. Murdoch became managing director of Australia's News Limited, inherited from his father, in 1952. He is the founder, Chairman and CEO of global media holding company News Corporation, the world's second-largest media conglomerate.

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