Rupert Murdoch

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

You can't have a competitive, egalitarian meritocracy if only some of your citizens have the opportunity for a good education.

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

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.

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