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 More Quotes by Rupert Murdoch More Quotes From 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 important trying mean Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it? Rupert Murdoch billions wrecks order 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 not emphasis on the ...the basic learning that you need if you're going to go on in a college and into post-graduate work. Rupert Murdoch college teacher needs I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good. Rupert Murdoch catalyst-for-change remembered world My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different. Rupert Murdoch media different father I have never asked a prime minister for anything. Rupert Murdoch prime-minister ministers prime Is there any other industry [than the press] in this country which seeks to presume so completely to give the customer what he does not want? Rupert Murdoch media giving country John Marks Templeton has achieved exemplary success in both business and philanthropy. For Looking Forward he has assembled a diverse and remarkable group of experts in their fields-including the environment, medicine, the physical sciences, religion, the family, and international relations-and contributed two stellar pieces as well. Together these essays dispel fashionable pessimism and show how the world can progress-and is progressing-toward a better future. Rupert Murdoch medicine together two 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. Rupert Murdoch quality reflection television Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a tape recorder, and after a couple of months, I said, To hell with it. I was so depressed. It was like saying, 'This is the end.' I was more interested in what the hell was coming the next day or the next week. Rupert Murdoch couple writing next-week For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values. Rupert Murdoch reflection character thinking Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism. Rupert Murdoch capitalism wealth sight I've operated and launched newspapers all over the world. Rupert Murdoch newspapers world Becoming carbon neutral is only the beginning. The climate problem will not be solved by one company reducing its emissions to zero, and it won't be solved by one government acting alone. The climate problem will not be solved without mass participation by the general public in countries around the globe. Rupert Murdoch zero responsibility country 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. Rupert Murdoch news tables people 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. Rupert Murdoch mother father children 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. Rupert Murdoch responsibility mother father The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets. Rupert Murdoch government needs Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels. Rupert Murdoch bypass information television 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. Rupert Murdoch clubs country thinking
