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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.
Rupert Murdoch
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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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Monopoly is a terrible thing, till you have it.
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Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.
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