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" 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. "

Rupert Murdoch

Important

Details

Daily

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

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" Online advertising is increasingly only a fraction of what is being lost from print advertising, and it is under constant pressure. "

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Pressure

Only

" 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. "

Rupert Murdoch

Appreciate

Know

" What's just about a generation of people who rack up government debt for their own health care and retirement - while leaving their children and grandchildren to foot the bill? "

" 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. "

" The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks. "

" You can't have a competitive, egalitarian meritocracy if only some of your citizens have the opportunity for a good education. "

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

Rupert Murdoch

Together

Amazed

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

" As an immigrant, I chose to live in America because it is one of the freest and most vibrant nations in the world. And as an immigrant, I feel an obligation to speak up for immigration policies that will keep America the most economically robust, creative and freedom-loving nation in the world. "

" 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. "

" I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible. "

" Societies or companies that expect a glorious past to shield them from the forces of change driven by advancing technology will fail and fall. That applies as much to my own, the media industry, as to every other business on the planet. "

" 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. "

Rupert Murdoch

Better

Sleep

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

" 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. "

" If the sea level rises 6 inches, that's a big deal... we can't mitigate that; we can't stop it. We've just got to stop building vast houses on seashores and go back a little bit. "

Rupert Murdoch

Sea

Stop

" 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 was brought up in a publishing home, a newspaper man's home, and was excited by that, I suppose. I saw that life at close range and, after the age of ten or twelve, never really considered any other. "

" 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. "

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

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

" People are playing games on their TV, young men are, and people are shopping... they are not watching their news channels, but they are using their TVs for other things. "

" ESPN is a very, very good operation, and it's a gold mine. It's an even bigger gold mine than Fox News. "

" 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. "