I've always had that obsessive will to win and a commitment to excellence.

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition.

Sometimes divorce is better than marriage

Opportunity does not knock. You have to find it

We all have to decide how we are going to fail, by not going far enough or by going too far.

In order to succeed, you have to live dangerously.. as long as the danger is rationally accepted and as long as the rewards far outweigh the risk.

At the time we acquired Viacom, everyone said I had overpaid. But even at today's depressed prices, that investment is worth billions. Everyone was saying MTV was a fad. I knew better.

Great success is built on failure, frustration, even catastrophe.

One doesn't accept bad challenges. Part of it is always the risk-taking without seeing that the risks are rational and the rewards are commensurate.. are more than commensurate.. with the risks.

I listen to my daughter. I listen to Paula, but I make the decisions. The decision to say goodbye to Cruise was mine.

Allow your past achievements to provide fuel for your current goals.

There is no off position on the genius button.

We cheated on our math tests, we carved some dirty words on the desk.

My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.

In almost any industry, if you're passionate about doing a great job and making people that buy your product or service as happy as possible, it's really fulfilling.

For students who are in the most creative group in America to somehow be presumed to be narrow is just completely meshugga.

I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a pity that the Court should lose the honor of being the first to establish so just a rule.

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

Mark Jones is mad as a hatter. But, he's great. He's really, really into music. I know he's married and he's got two wonderful children, but his life is music. And he's very clever with it.

I am happy. I have something to accomplish, create, and achieve. I am happy.