Rupert Murdoch

From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they want.

If the sea level rises 6 inches, that's a big deal... we can't mitigate that; we can't stop it. We've just got to stop building vast houses on seashores and go back a little bit.

We started Fox when everyone said it couldn't be done.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.