I have never asked a prime minister for anything.

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.

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.

We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll sell our business news and information in print, we'll sell it to anyone who's got a cable system, and we'll sell it on the Web.

We have no intention of failing. The only question is how great a success we'll have.

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.

Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs.