John C. Malone Quotes

United States, Businessman
March 7, 1941

John Carl Malone (born March 7, 1941) is an American billionaire businessman, landowner and philanthropist. He was chief executive officer (CEO) of Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI), a cable and media giant, for twenty-four years from 1973 to 1996. Malone is now chairman and majority owner of Liberty Media, Liberty Global, and Qurate Retail Group (formerly known as Liberty Interactive), and also owns 10% of Lionsgate/Starz Inc.. He was interim CEO of Liberty Media, until succeeded by former Oracle CFO Greg Maffei.

Also known as Philanthropist

The curse of the cable industry over all these years as an operating reality is that every year the debt goes up (and) all the money generated gets reinvested, and then some.

John C. Malone
- Reality
- Years
- Debt
The public doesn't particularly care for advertisements.

John C. Malone

I'm not an extreme tree-hugger. I do believe trees grow and are a useful agricultural product that can be harvested without damaging the ecology and wildlife.

John C. Malone
- Believe
- Tree
There's an old saying that the government is your partner from birth, but they don't get to come to all the meetings.

John C. Malone
What you really are afraid of is that you're competing against somebody who is rich and irrational. I mean, it used to be a given, a saying in the industry: Don't ever bid against Rupert Murdoch for anything Rupert wants, because if you win you lose. You will have paid way too much.

John C. Malone
- Mean
- Winning
- Rich
I think private ownership is generally superior to public because you care about the land more and it doesn't get trashed.

John C. Malone
The fact that equities are being sold down, despite the lowest interest rates in recent history, simply means that the market doesn't see growth ahead for -very many businesses.

John C. Malone
- Mean
- Growth
- Interest
Synergy is the driver. There are two levels of synergy: there are operating synergies, which, you know, you'd have to be stupid not to try to take advantage of, and then there are strategic synergies. In other words, in what positions you would be more sustainable, more long term, and so on.

John C. Malone
- Long
- Trying
- Change

It will allow us to control all the communication needs of a household with one device.

John C. Malone
Synergies are something that the CEO basically has to force to happen, because organizations are, generally, like bodies in motion that tend to stay in motion. It's very hard to get big organizations to change. And it takes really a very powerful mandate to force things to happen.

John C. Malone
- Power
- Change
- Powerful
You just have to be opportunistic, and try to figure out what creates value.. where the bottom is, what creates incremental value, and in what combinations.

John C. Malone