Top 70 Rupert Murdoch Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Rupert Murdoch

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2. “Don’t let’s lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism.”

— Rupert Murdoch

3. “Successful workers will be those who embrace a lifetime of learning. Those who don’t will be left behind.”

— Rupert Murdoch

4. “Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.”

— Rupert Murdoch

5. “Monopoly is a terrible thing, till you have it.”

— Rupert Murdoch

6. “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.”

— Rupert Murdoch

7. “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

8. “If you want to judge my thinking, look at The Sun.”

— Rupert Murdoch

9. “I’m a catalyst for change. You can’t be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.”

— Rupert Murdoch

10. “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.”

— Rupert Murdoch

11. “I’m not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.”

— Rupert Murdoch

12. “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.”

— Rupert Murdoch

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

— Rupert Murdoch

14. “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.”

— Rupert Murdoch

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

— Rupert Murdoch

16. “When you’re a catalyst for change, you make enemies – and I’m proud of the ones I’ve got.”

— Rupert Murdoch

17. “Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can’t afford the risk of inaction.”

— Rupert Murdoch

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

— Rupert Murdoch

19. “The buck stops with me, but I can tick off dozens of very good senior executives that are responsible for hundreds or thousands of people who work for me.”

— Rupert Murdoch

20. “The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.”

— Rupert Murdoch

21. “We’ve got to get rid of the fear of failure in this country. In America, people start things, fail and shake themselves down and start things again. The animal spirit of capitalism is stronger there.”

— Rupert Murdoch

22. “I can go into restaurants and a whole table will get up and clap if they recognize me, because they love Fox News. Other places – or even the same place – people will turn the other way.”

— Rupert Murdoch

23. “Imagine if we succeed in inspiring our audiences to reduce their own impacts on climate change by just one percent. That would be like turning the State of California off for almost two months.”

— Rupert Murdoch

24. “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.”

— Rupert Murdoch

25. “We have no intention of failing. The only question is how great a success we’ll have.”

— Rupert Murdoch

26. “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.”

— Rupert Murdoch

27. “I felt that it’s best just to be as transparent as possible.”

— Rupert Murdoch

28. “Why is Jewish owned press so consistently anti-Israel in every crisis?”

— Rupert Murdoch

29. “The current days of the Internet will soon be over.”

— Rupert Murdoch

30. “I’ve always been more interested in the content of our newspapers, political positions day to day, the thrill of communicating with people through words that I am in the pure business aspects.”

— Rupert Murdoch

31. “Can we change the world? No, but hell, we can all try.”

— Rupert Murdoch

32. “We could make a difference just by holding our emissions steady as our businesses continue to grow. But that doesn’t seem to be enough: we want to go all the way to zero. Today, I am announcing our intention to be carbon neutral, across all our businesses, by 2010.”

— Rupert Murdoch

33. “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.”

— Rupert Murdoch

34. “Most newspaper companies still have their heads in the sand, but other media companies are aggressive.”

— Rupert Murdoch

35. “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.”

— Rupert Murdoch

36. “You’ve got to look for a gap, where competitors in a market have grown lazy and lost contact with the readers or the viewers.”

— Rupert Murdoch

37. “Content is not just king, it is the emperor of all things electronic.”

— Rupert Murdoch

38. “I think the important thing is that there be plenty of newspapers, with plenty of different people controlling them, so that there are a variety of viewpoints, so there is a choice for the public. This is the freedom of the press that is needed.”

— Rupert Murdoch

39. “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.”

— Rupert Murdoch

40. “Endemic is a very hard, a very wide ranging word. I also have to be very careful not to prejudice the course of justice that is taking place now.”

— Rupert Murdoch

41. “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.”

— Rupert Murdoch

42. “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.”

— Rupert Murdoch

43. “We must have sweeping, generous immigration reform, make existing law- abiding Hispanics welcome. Most are hard working family people.”

— Rupert Murdoch

44. “When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right.”

— Rupert Murdoch

45. “I have never asked a prime minister for anything.”

— Rupert Murdoch

46. “As with all politically lead governments, foreign investment is the slowest in the media section. Politicians are somewhat paranoid about the media but we still think it’s worthwhile.”

— Rupert Murdoch

47. “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.”

— Rupert Murdoch

48. “Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.”

— Rupert Murdoch

49. “The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.”

— Rupert Murdoch

50. “The reality is that we’ve seen the last of any serious price wars for a long time. I don’t think any of the others could afford it, certainly not on a long-term basis.”

— Rupert Murdoch