Rupert Murdoch

“SHIT, OR GET OFF THE POT”

— Rupert Murdoch

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

— 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…

— Rupert Murdoch

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps…

— Rupert Murdoch

Societies or companies that expect a glorious past to shield them from the forces of change driven by advancing technology will fail…

— Rupert Murdoch

I was brought up in a publishing home, a newspaper man's home, and was excited by that, I suppose. I saw that…

— Rupert Murdoch

As with all politically lead governments, foreign investment is the slowest in the media section. Politicians are somewhat paranoid about the media…

— Rupert Murdoch

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…

— Rupert Murdoch

You can't have a free democracy if you don't have a free media that can provide vital and independent information to the…

— Rupert Murdoch

Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.

— Rupert Murdoch

Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged;…

— Rupert Murdoch

The current days of the Internet will soon be over.

— Rupert Murdoch

I've always been more interested in the content of our newspapers, political positions day to day, the thrill of communicating with people…

— Rupert Murdoch

All forms of government ultimately are not going to succeed in trying to control or censor the Internet.

— Rupert Murdoch

Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary.

— Rupert Murdoch

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…

— Rupert Murdoch

It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got…

— Rupert Murdoch

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

— Rupert Murdoch

Well, except for ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, New York Times, the Washington Post, and about another 100 newspapers, I find little…

— Rupert Murdoch

We all know growth is absolutely vital to a free society. No one should want Australia to be a stag-nation: a nation…

— Rupert Murdoch

We're not spending enough money, but probably we let the teachers unions set curriculas which don't teach them the right things. There's…

— Rupert Murdoch

If Boris [Johnson] backtracks on serious things there'll be another bloody revolt.

— Rupert Murdoch

My worry about the New York Times is that it's got the only position as a national elitist general-interest paper. So the…

— Rupert Murdoch

I was absolutely shocked, appalled and ashamed when I heard about the Milly Dowler case only two weeks ago.

— Rupert Murdoch

Crony capitalism is not capitalism - it is cronyism.

— Rupert Murdoch