205 Quotes by Rupert Murdoch

I did not come all this way not to interfere.

We have no intention of failing. The only question is how great a success we’ll have.

I’m not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.

There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there’s just millions of voices and people want to be heard.

You can’t build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.

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

People are reading news for free on the web, that’s got to change.

No one’s 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.

We could make a difference just by holding our emissions steady as our businesses continue to grow. But that doesn’t seem to be enough: we want to go all the way to zero. Today, I am announcing our intention to be carbon neutral, across all our businesses, by 2010.