Rupert Murdoch Quotes

You look at any industry - you're not innovating unless people are questioning it. If you're innovating, you're doing something nobody's done before, which means you're re-writing rules, resetting boundaries, re-creating systems. And that means the traditional industry is going to question it.

If I do something I think is new, it will be misunderstood, but if people like it, I will be disappointed because I haven't pushed them enough. The more people hate it, maybe the newer it is. Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change.

To innovate is not to reform.

The new always competes with the old and destroys it. Men who build railroads destroy stage coach lines.

You don't do new things and try to change the system without generating debate.

I believe that if you don't disrupt yourself, you will be disrupted by someone else.

It's not that things won't change - they can't help but change. Things are becoming more and more competitive.

The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.

The pace of change and the threat of disruption creates tremendous opportunities.

If I do something I think is new, it will be misunderstood, but if people like it, I will be disappointed because I haven't pushed them enough. The more people hate it, maybe the newer it is. Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change. The place I am always looking for-because in order to keep the business I need to make a little compromise between my values and customers' values-is the place where I make something that could almost-but not quite-be understood by everyone.

Changes happen when we go against everything we're used to doing.

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.

Tech never comes back the same.

We have shaken things up when necessary.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

Innovation never comes from the established institutions.

We are accustomed to think that some degree of stability is necessary to all real progress, all great development. But Japan has given proof irrefutable that enormous development is possible without any stability at all.

If you want to really change something, do not try to fight the existing reality. create a new reality.

Oracle has grown and advanced because we've been consistently willing to cannibalize ourselves.

If you don't change and mix things up, you're going to get run over. One of the things we preach is change, change, change.

This is the age of disruption.

Innovation means change.