Media Mogul Quotes

I'm aiming to become the white Oprah.

BoomTown has long been a big fan of Martha Stewart.

Oprah was famous for going to a garden party and ad-libbing. She could literally interview people for a half hour about nothing, and it was entertaining. She had her own show before she had her own show.

Rupert Murdoch has been around since the dinosaurs. He knows how to get around any independent board - as he did with me, and as he's done with other editors as well.

People are saying that Anderson Cooper could be the new Oprah. And then these people are struck by lightning.

Am I the next Bill Simmons? I don't think so. I haven't built a media property. He's the best at finding voices he likes and paying people money to work for him.

My first job ever was, I got hired by Oprah Winfrey.

I say, do not mess with Oprah. The one person in America you shouldn't mess with.

When I read the diary of former 'Daily Mirror' editor Piers Morgan, I realised it was a tough old world to be part of.

I don't tell Rupert Murdoch who to endorse.

In the nineteen-thirties, one in four Americans got their news from William Randolph Hearst, who lived in a castle and owned twenty-eight newspapers in nineteen cities.

Rupert Murdoch is in bed with Cameron. Of course they want to kill the BBC... anybody who is in the way.

I have not heard a Martha Stewart album yet. But, you know, it could happen.

I'm Howard Stern with a vocabulary. I'm the man he wishes he could be.

In 2009, my father wanted me to join politics. I told him, 'Why should I jump into the dirt and grime of politics when I can have politicians come to me as owner of a media group?' Then my father gave me an ultimatum.

Whenever someone says I'm the next Oprah, I always respond, 'Child, there's only one Mahogany, and only one Oprah.' There are no others.

When you've got Roger Ailes on your side, you do not lose.

I haven't spoken to Oprah herself. She had so much going on, since her network show was wrapping up at the time we were shooting. I can't fault her for that.

I want to build the next CNN with 'VICE' - it's within my grasp.

I pray there's a God...I know there's an Oprah.

I've known Roger Ailes for 15 years, and I have been treated with the utmost professionalism and respect.

I talk to Oprah several times a week, and I see the side of Oprah that's having the time of her life. What she's getting to do with OWN is build a team to create a brand from nothing.

You know, Rupert Murdoch I've said is like an Italian when it comes to negotiations.

As I travelled around Australia, strangers in pubs, on airplanes, in beach parking lots would bring up Gina Rinehart, not knowing I was writing about her. Everybody had something to say, some of it thoughtful, some of it poorly informed, some of it vividly obscene.

I do not regret working with Rupert Murdoch. But there is a nasty undertone to a lot of what he does which does not exist with the Barclays.