The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

ESPN is a very, very good operation, and it's a gold mine. It's an even bigger gold mine than Fox News.

People begin to resent the rich only when they conclude that the system is rigged.

You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.

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

I'm not ashamed of any of my papers at all and I'm rather sick of snobs that tell us that they're bad papers, snobs who only read papers that no one else wants. I doubt if they read many papers at all.

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

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 global attitude.

I believe people will be watching their TV screens for a long time and that TV channels have a long-term life.

I can go into restaurants and a whole table will get up and clap if they recognize me, because they love Fox News. Other places - or even the same place - people will turn the other way.

The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.

My worry about the New York Times is that it's got the only position as a national elitist general-interest paper. So the network news picks up its cues from the Times. And local papers do too. It has a huge influence. And we'd love to challenge it.

Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.

No leader will fight for values, for principles, if their government is a value-free vacuum. Moral relativism is morally wrong.

One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.

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 was always in trouble with gambling debts.

If you're in the media, particularly newspapers, you are in the thick of all the interesting things that are going on in a community, and I can't imagine any other life that one would want to dedicate oneself to.

There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there's just millions of voices and people want to be heard.

Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.

I now wear a Jawbone. This is a bracelet that keeps track of how I sleep, move and eat - transmitting that information to the cloud. It allows me to track and maintain my health much better.

I try to keep in touch with the details... I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening.

I think you have a danger of regulating, putting regulations in place which will mean there will be no press in 10 years to regulate.

I'm not looking for a legacy, and you'll never shut up the critics. I've been around 50 years. When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

My mother just died at 103, so that's a start. You should live 20 years longer than your parents.

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.

I've operated and launched newspapers all over the world.

I wasn't weaned on the web nor coddled on a computer. Instead, I grew up in a highly centralized world where news and information were tightly controlled by a few editors, who deemed to tell us what we could and should know. My two young daughters, on the other hand, will be digital natives.

The digital native doesn't send a letter to the editor anymore. She goes online and starts a blog.

People are playing games on their TV, young men are, and people are shopping... they are not watching their news channels, but they are using their TVs for other things.

As an immigrant, I chose to live in America because it is one of the freest and most vibrant nations in the world. And as an immigrant, I feel an obligation to speak up for immigration policies that will keep America the most economically robust, creative and freedom-loving nation in the world.

When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right.

I am amazed that CNN can't get its act together.

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 that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I'm just not ready to stop, to die.

Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a tape recorder, and after a couple of months, I said, To hell with it. I was so depressed. It was like saying, 'This is the end.' I was more interested in what the hell was coming the next day or the next week.

I've noticed people in India have developed a habit of hugging around people. I don't understand it now. I wanted to be hugged when I was young. Now, if someone wants to hug me, I feel only claustrophobic.

I love to sleep.

Instead of becoming a great shikari, as my mother and stepfather might have wished, I had become an incurable bookworm and was to remain one for the rest of my life.

I am a very personal writer. I write direct to the reader. I don't hold back.

I am a compulsive writer.

I keep a big, fat dictionary with me while writing.

I liked the old comic books, especially the funny ones like 'Popeye' and 'Beetle Bailey.'

I have no real regrets.

Small places intrigue me. Whenever I tried moving to a larger city, I ran back to the hills.

One has to be ambitious to start writing.

I have always discouraged young writers from self-publishing, by which I mean going to a vanity publisher and spending your hard earned savings - say, some two-three lakhs - and getting your book printed. It's not published; it's printed!

All my works over the years have been autobiographical in the sense they reflect some part of my life, although I have fictionalised them to an extent.

Books of exploration have always fascinated me, like somebody going up the Amazon for the first time.

I fortunately have a good memor, and that helps a lot in the way I write.

I don't overwork - a couple of hours a day is fine for me.

My desk is right next to my bed. So I sit on my bed. I write in a big notebook which is on the desk. And if I feel drowsy, I just have to slide into bed.