Quotes from Rupert Murdoch

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.

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.

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.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

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.

One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.

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.

So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don't 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. I'm just not ready to stop, to die.

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.

From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they want.

Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged; they must feed the mind and move the heart.

We need to push ourselves to make as many reductions as possible in our own energy use first - and that takes time. But we must do this quickly - the climate will not wait for us.

If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something.

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

[on Brexit] It's time for change. I just hope the right people give the right leadership.

I think you have a danger of regulating, putting regulations in place which will mean there will be no press in 10 years to regulate.

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.

My worry about the New York Times is that it's got the only position as a national elitist general-interest paper. So the network news picks up its cues from the Times. And local papers do too. It has a huge influence. And we'd love to challenge it.

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.

I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good.

We certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox... and we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line.

Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it?

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.

I am amazed that CNN can't get its act together.