In motivating people, youve 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
So long as I can stay mentally alert – inquiring, curious – I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I dont want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. Im just not ready to stop, to die. – Rupert Murdoch
Im not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian. – Rupert Murdoch
Im a strange mixture of my mothers 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 mothers father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts. – Rupert Murdoch
Im 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
When youre a catalyst for change, you make enemies – and Im proud of the ones Ive got. – Rupert Murdoch
Its a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I havent got any other business interests. – Rupert Murdoch
Weve got to lift our game tremendously. Well sell our business news and information in print, well sell it to anyone whos got a cable system, and well sell it on the Web. – Rupert Murdoch
Money is not the motivating force. Its nice to have money, but I dont live high. What I enjoy is running the business. – Rupert Murdoch
I felt that its best just to be as transparent as possible. – Rupert Murdoch
No ones going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude. – Rupert Murdoch
Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere. – Rupert Murdoch
Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me. – Rupert Murdoch
The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets. – Rupert Murdoch
The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow. – Rupert Murdoch
One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business. – Rupert Murdoch
The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks. – Rupert Murdoch
The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. – Rupert Murdoch
