Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC KCSG (/ˈmɜːrdɒk/; born 11 March 1931) is an Australian-born American media mogul.
Is there any other industry [than the press] in this country which seeks to presume so completely to give the customer what he does not want?
Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a tape recorder, and after a couple of months, I said, To hell with it. I was so depressed. It was like saying, 'This is the end. ' I was more interested in what the hell was coming the next day or the next week.
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.
I think everyone's against abortion.
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.
My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different.
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.
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.
When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.
I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.
We must have sweeping, generous immigration reform, make existing law- abiding Hispanics welcome. Most are hard working family people.
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Successful workers will be those who embrace a lifetime of learning. Those who don't will be left behind.
Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.
Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it?
If [Boris Johnson] backtracks on serious things there'll be another bloody revolt.
All forms of government ultimately are not going to succeed in trying to control or censor the Internet.
[Brexit] it is time for change. I just hope the right people give the right leadership.
We have no intention of failing. The only question is how great a success we'll have.
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's 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 mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.