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

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Rupert Murdoch
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: March 11
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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?
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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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All forms of government ultimately are not going to succeed in trying to control or censor the Internet.
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I have never asked a prime minister for anything.
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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.
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I am amazed that CNN can't get its act together.
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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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I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good.
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So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don't want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I'm just not ready to stop, to die.
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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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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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