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.

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

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.

Sometimes people with low self-esteem will try to punish you for caring about them.

Hey, bro...So there's like 7,000 paparazzi outside. Maybe two of you guys can roll over, and one of you can grab the Ferrari, and then we can just split? Thanks, bro.

I have always believed in the magic of childhood and think that if you get your life right that magic should never end.

The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.

Everything in the universe is created from something, which in turn is created from nothing.

While waiting for my visa, I got a job in the music industry, which was so exciting, it changed my life and stopped me moving.

Lack of money rivets us firmly to the ground, one's wings are clipped.

Sin is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, worse still in the heart, but worst of all in the life.

Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women.