Is 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?

I 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.

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.

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.

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

If Boris [Johnson] backtracks on serious things there'll be another bloody revolt.

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