Rupert Murdoch Quotes

An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true.

The most successful people are so original.

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

I want to do things not many have done.

Taking risks is the best thing ever, and that's what gets you anywhere.

In order to do something really good, you have to take risks - that's what I do.

True entrepreneurshi p comes only from risk-taking.

I think the folks who go after grand challenges are impatient.

Give me an entrepreneur with a lot of courage, gusto and who iterates rapidly, and I will back that person day in and day out.

Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.

I've been fortunate to come on places where the question isn't why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didn't anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.

Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.

I like people who try to do big things.

I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.

Great things are won by great dangers.

If you want to do things – to change things – you must run the risk of not succeeding.

To achieve truly important things you have to be willing to put your personal reputation on the line …

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward

The man with a new idea is a crank until his idea succeeds.

We need people who dream impossible things, who maybe fail, sometimes succeed, but in any case who have that ambition.

If you show me someone who's afraid of failure, I'll show you someone who is not a groundbreaking, innovative pioneer of a certain industry.