Rupert Murdoch Quotes

Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.

Goodwill can be indicated in various ways. I raised that particular example because at that time I was in charge. Today, I'm not in a position to present other possibilities.

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.

Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.

I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power.

Washington is like playing the Super Bowl, only there are no timeouts, no potty breaks, and the arena is filled with the media. In government, you have to learn to put yourself second in a big way. But I am a business person at heart. I like to be in charge.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

I was immature the way I handled the business. I saw myself as a tribune of the people.

If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you're decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

What I have found is that, in a family business structure, sometimes what is needed is a sense of discipline rather than creativity. You have to take everyone's ideas and make it work. When you are dealing with money, there is a limitation on how creative you can be.

The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. When you are but a humble coder, you make the computer do exactly what you want; when you're a manager, you only hope that people understand what you want, and then trust/pray that they do it both correctly and in a timely manner.

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

In politics, as in business, leadership is crucial.

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

I was the network president. I thought I knew everything.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

A manager doesn't hear the cheers.

I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.

Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.