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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" A lot of people are very happy to read their newspaper either on their iPad or - startlingly and faster and faster the figures go up - on their telephone, on their smart phone. "

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

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

" I don't mind what people say about me. I've never read a book about myself. "

" The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets. "

" Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars. "

" 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. "

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

" The digital native doesn't send a letter to the editor anymore. She goes online and starts a blog. "

" I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on. "

" Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" My mother just died at 103, so that's a start. You should live 20 years longer than your parents. "

" Thankfully, Australia has emerged from its inauspicious colonial beginnings to become a proud nation, a nation that overcame those primeval prejudices. "

" Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me. "

" CNN is pretty consistently on the left, if you look at their choice of stories, what they play up. It's not what they say. It's what they highlight. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm not looking for a legacy, and you'll never shut up the critics. I've been around 50 years. When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got. "

" 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. "

" My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different. "

" When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got. "

" We started Fox when everyone said it couldn't be done. "