Quotes from 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 people.

We all know growth is absolutely vital to a free society. No one should want Australia to be a stag-nation: a nation with a stagnant economy and stagnant aspirations.

The CNN international is a different service - it is even more leftist and anti-American than CNN is. That's their business, that's fine, but it can't be getting any revenue. There is no cable network that I know of anywhere in the world other than in America that pays them for their products.

Crony capitalism is not capitalism - it is cronyism.

I believe people will be watching their TV screens for a long time and that TV channels have a long-term life.

Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.

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.

In motivating people, you've 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.

The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.

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

Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.

You've got to look for a gap, where competitors in a market have grown lazy and lost contact with the readers or the viewers.

Imagine if we succeed in inspiring our audiences to reduce their own impacts on climate change by just 1 percent. That would be like turning the state of California off for almost two months.

I'm a permanently curious person. I probably waste my time being curious about things that have got nothing to do with the business sometimes. What keeps me alive, certainly, is curiosity.

People who watch 'Fox News,' you may say, and this is anecdotal, but they are passionate about it. In the most unlikely places, like down in Soho where I used to live, people would come up to me and thank me for it. People I didn't know from a bar of soap. People appreciate that at least they're being heard. It is much more watchable.

Climate change has been going on as long as the planet is here, and there will always be a little bit of it.

I now wear a Jawbone. This is a bracelet that keeps track of how I sleep, move and eat - transmitting that information to the cloud. It allows me to track and maintain my health much better.

I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.

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 got a cable system, and we'll sell it on the Web.

I wasn't weaned on the web nor coddled on a computer. Instead, I grew up in a highly centralized world where news and information were tightly controlled by a few editors, who deemed to tell us what we could and should know. My two young daughters, on the other hand, will be digital natives.

At its core, a fair and just society is one where opportunity is open to all - not just those at the top.

At News Corporation, we have a history of challenging media orthodoxies.

Successful workers will be those who embrace a lifetime of learning. Those who don't will be left behind.

Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely.