Rupert Murdoch (Keith Rupert Murdoch) Quotes

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

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• I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.

  

  Lars Onsager
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Honor

• I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Person
  • Type

• The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.

  

  Barry Diller
  • World
  • Run
  • Strategy

• Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Time
  • Chocolate
  • Ice Cream

• I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV. I have a million shows on my TiVo.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Home
  • Reality
  • Wine

• I have a specialized racing bike, which is great because it has a solid build, is comfortable to ride, and is lightweight.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Great
  • Bike
  • Ride

• We came to Iraq to liberate them and to make our world a safer place.

  

  Larry Craig
  • World
  • Place
  • Our World

• We had already planned my wedding when my brother passed away in 2012. When you're grieving, you don't necessarily want to think about something like that, but my brother told me that he wanted me to, so we went ahead and did it.

  

  Yaya DaCosta
  • Think
  • Brother
  • Wedding

• The government is determined to bring the program back on track, and proceed with the privatizations.

  

  Yannis Stournaras
  • Government
  • Back
  • Determined

• And it's certainly bad, but when a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains. I don't know of any landowner around here who begrudges those children any game their father can hit. Of course he shouldn't, but he'll never change his ways. Are you going to take out your disapproval on his children?

  

  Harper Lee
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Father

• If anyone can put together a plan that is demonstrably better than the improvements we've made to our health care system and that covers as many people at less cost, I will publicly support it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Together
  • Support

• Ice formed on the butler's upper slopes.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

• ...he became one with his Chinese parishioners, announcing a trade as honest as that of the dentist, the seller of rice-wine, the brothel-keeper, the purveyor of quack rejuvenators and aphrodisiacs, or the vendor of shark’s-fin strips.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Chinese
  • Wine

• His mind is concrete and fastidious,His nose is remarkably big;His visage is more or less hideous,His beard it resembles a wig.

  

  Edward Lear
  • Mind

• He had never lost that mingled combination of awe and terror that welled up in him when confronted by the routinely huge distances of space.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Up
  • Lost
  • Space

• I can't stand tribute bands. It's nice, bless 'em, but it's not right. They can't capture the right spirit. You never see a tribute comedian, a tribute Les Dawson.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • Nice

• I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced - that Alan Dershowitz used to have my sentence - it came down eventually to eight years.

  

  Jim Bakker
  • Book

• When you look at the money spent by labor unions for Democrats, it comes as no surprise the Democrats crafted a campaign-finance 'disclosure' bill with the thresholds adjusted to exempt unions.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Money

• In college, when I was kind of confronted with facts and figures about inequality in America, a big impulse I had was to go hang out with homeless people around my university and hear them out and understand their situation from their perspective.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • People
  • America
  • College

• When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Thinking
  • Marriage
  • Said

• I am not yours, nor lost in you, not lost, although I long to be. Lost as a candle lit at noon, lost as a snowflake in the sea. You love me, and I find you still a spirit beautiful and bright, yet I am I, who long to be lost as a light is lost in light.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Long
  • Beautiful
  • Spirit

• There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Good
  • Temptation

• 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