216 Quotes by Roger Ailes

The thing you always have to remember is, you look at people and they might look like a failure but there’s often a narrow thing they do very well.

I’ve been in entertainment, politics, business, business coaching, public affairs, documentaries, programming, news, theater. So, there aren’t many things I see that I haven’t seen something like that before.

You cover the bad news about America. You do. But you don’t get up in the morning hating your country. And so, until somebody shows me lines at the border trying to get out, I think there’s some good news.

There is a – deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there’s a laziness in me.

I’m very confident in the management team, very confident in the on-air people. That’s the whole secret to everything. It’s having people who love to work where they’re working and want to win.

Almost everything I do is related to my ability to hire good people. I don’t take much of the credit myself. I think I have a good eye.

I look for something unique, and I look for people who haven’t reached their potential. I think I’m pretty good at developing talent.

Let’s face it, a lot of people think Nixon is dull. Think he’s a bore, a pain in the ass. They look at him as the kind of kid who always carried a bookbag. Who was forty-two years old the day he was born. They figure other kids got footballs for Christmas, Nixon got a briefcase and he loved it. He’d always have his homework done and he’d never let you copy.

Everybody who’s in the news business today was influenced in a positive way by Walter Cronkite. He had ability, humility and integrity, a rare combination.