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I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.

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Rupert Murdoch
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: March 11
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I'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.
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[Falling pound] makes us more competitive.
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The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.
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Most newspaper companies still have their heads in the sand, but other media companies are aggressive.
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Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.
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Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism.
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It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests.
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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.
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Successful workers will be those who embrace a lifetime of learning. Those who don't will be left behind.
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Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it?
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