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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Rupert Murdoch

Live

Business

Nice

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I'm not ashamed of any of my papers at all and I'm rather sick of snobs that tell us that they're bad papers, snobs who only read papers that no one else wants. I doubt if they read many papers at all. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian. "

" 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. "

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

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

Rupert Murdoch

Pressure

Only

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" The cold, commercial word 'market' disguises its human character - a market is a collection of our aspirations, exertions, choices and desires. "

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

Rupert Murdoch

Government

Less

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

" 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. "

" 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

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

" I think everyone's against abortion. "

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

Rupert Murdoch

Father

Media

" 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. "