Rupert Murdoch Quotes

A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off.

Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it.

The more people's money you take to do something, the more inputs you get.

You buy a house and you get it checked out and you feel like you've kind of made your mark here in some way. And then an act of God just comes up the coast and has the potential to just completely wipe it clean. Weather like that is certainly humbling.

The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.

If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.

The Department of Energy made an investment that failed, and it got raked over the coals for that failed investment. This is ridiculous. The fact of the matter is, the government should be making a lot of risky investments, the majority of which are likely to fail.

You have to spend a lot to make a lot. It's not like I'm sitting on top of a pile of money.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

One has to live with the fact that some corporate decisions are going to be wrong. As long as most of the decisions are right.

They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I.

Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.

They kept us on the air probably a year more than they should have.

In the U.K., there's absolutely no money for television. So you can do pretty much whatever you want. They're not losing money on any of the shows, so they'll give you a lot of creative freedom. In the United States, there are millions and millions of dollars at stake, so they need a sure formula.

It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.

Starting a business is risky. Half of all new businesses fail to experience a fifth anniversary. And everyone knows that you could lose all the money you've invested in your new company and then some. Those are the obvious risks of trying to be an entrepreneur.

I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.

I suspect that we might actually start selling some records with these artists in about 10 years. Some the people who invested, they're a little tight-because it's a lot of money to start up a company.

If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.

It is a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.

It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

People will spend vastly more to get what they regard as 100 percent safety than they will for 95 percent or 90 percent safety. It’s irrational of course.

Reducing future risks requires paying some immediate costs.

I've learned that all investments have risk.

I think we spent 60-something million on 'Hateful Eight,' which is actually more than I wanted to spend, but we had weather problems. And I wanted to make it good.