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 MurdochThe Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. Someone the other day said, "It's the biggest thing since Gutenberg," and then someone else said "No, it's the biggest thing since the invention of writing."
Rupert MurdochOne thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.
Rupert MurdochI'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.
Rupert MurdochImagine if we succeed in inspiring our audiences to reduce their own impacts on climate change by just 1 percent. That would be like turning the state of California off for almost two months.
Rupert MurdochMoney 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 MurdochSome of our businesses use more energy than others, but our strategy everywhere is the same... first, reduce our use of energy as much as possible. Then, switch to renewable sources of power where it makes economic sense... And, over time, as a last resort, offset the emissions we can't avoid.
Rupert MurdochFor better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values.
Rupert MurdochBecoming carbon neutral is only the beginning. The climate problem will not be solved by one company reducing its emissions to zero, and it won't be solved by one government acting alone. The climate problem will not be solved without mass participation by the general public in countries around the globe.
Rupert MurdochI feel that people I trusted - I don't know who, on what level - have let me down, and I think they have behaved disgracefully, and it's for them to pay. And I think, frankly, that I'm the best person to see it through.
Rupert MurdochI think you have a danger of regulating, putting regulations in place which will mean there will be no press in 10 years to regulate.
Rupert MurdochThe 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 MurdochWell, except for ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, New York Times, the Washington Post, and about another 100 newspapers, I find little evidence of liberal bias in the media.
Rupert MurdochSuccessful workers will be those who embrace a lifetime of learning. Those who don't will be left behind.
Rupert MurdochIs there any other industry [than the press] in this country which seeks to presume so completely to give the customer what he does not want?
Rupert MurdochIf 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 MurdochSize and synergies between the different segments of the company matter. As far as we are concerned, the Internet is broadening our opportunity, as well as for other big media companies with huge resources in sports, entertainment and news. There's just more opportunity.
Rupert MurdochAdvances in the technology of communications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes: Fax machines enable dissidents to bypass state-controlled print media; direct-dial telephone makes it difficult for a state to control interpersonal voice communication; and satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.
Rupert MurdochI think we've been an agent for change, everywhere, and I think change frightens people. They're going nicely in what seems like a settled industry, and someone comes in and says "I can do this better. It doesn't matter how nice that other one is." That's one of the distinguishing points of our acquisitions.
Rupert MurdochI would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good.
Rupert MurdochTo find something comparable, you have to go back 500 years to the printing press, the birth of mass media – which, incidentally, is what really destroyed the old world of kings and aristocracies. Technology is shifting power away from the editors, the publishers, the establishment, the media elite. Now it’s the people who are taking control.
Rupert MurdochThe world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.
Rupert MurdochMost newspaper companies still have their heads in the sand, but other media companies are aggressive.
Rupert Murdoch[on Brexit] It's time for change. I just hope the right people give the right leadership.
Rupert MurdochIn 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 MurdochThe 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 MurdochI 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 MurdochI think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.
Rupert MurdochSatellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.
Rupert MurdochWe're not spending enough money, but probably we let the teachers unions set curriculas which don't teach them the right things. There's not emphasis on the ...the basic learning that you need if you're going to go on in a college and into post-graduate work.
Rupert MurdochI'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 MurdochClimate change and energy use are global problems - News Corp is a global company. Our operations affect the environment all over the world.
Rupert MurdochSomebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a tape recorder, and after a couple of months, I said, To hell with it. I was so depressed. It was like saying, 'This is the end.' I was more interested in what the hell was coming the next day or the next week.
Rupert MurdochNews - communicating news and ideas, I guess - is my passion. And giving people alternatives so that they have two papers to read (and) alternative television channels.
Rupert MurdochCNN 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 MurdochThe Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years.
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