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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 catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.
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Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it?
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Imagine 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.
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The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.
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CNN 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.
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Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.
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One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.
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To 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.
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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.
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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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If Hillary [Clinton] gets elected what she's promised to do with the [New York] banks is going to make London boom.
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Monopoly is a terrible thing, till you have it.
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I think the important thing is that there be plenty of newspapers, with plenty of different people controlling them, so that there are a variety of viewpoints, so there is a choice for the public. This is the freedom of the press that is needed.
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Most newspaper companies still have their heads in the sand, but other media companies are aggressive.
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I 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.
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I challenge anybody to show me an example of bias in Fox News Channel.
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The 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.
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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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Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism.
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You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.
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