~In motivating people, YOU've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved~
Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.
The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.
The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.
We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll sell our business news and information in print, we'll sell it to anyone who's got a cable system, and we'll sell it on the Web.
Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.
I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible.
If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses somethi...
So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don't want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like tha...
I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.
When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.
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The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.
One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.
It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests.
Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged; they must feed the mind and move the heart.
In a world as competitive as ours, the child who does not get a decent education is condemned to the fringes of society. I think all Australians agree that this is intolerable. So we must demand as mu...
No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a globa...
I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility and my mother's father, who w...