The Man Who Owns the News Quotes

“He is—and this is a fundamental entrepreneurial talent—a master illusionist. It’s the essential entrepreneurial skill, to convince people you are what you have yet to become.”
― Michael Wolff, The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch

“But Murdoch is, more accurately, not a modern journalist but the last representative from an era when a newspaper was its own advertisement, when it had to sell itself.”
― Michael Wolff, The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch

“He is, and is pleased to let everybody know it, a winner-take-all businessman—the worst nightmare of sentimental, lefty intellectuals, which is exactly what so many of the Bancrofts have become.”
― Michael Wolff, The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch

“Exhausted though he might be, he’s got to keep going, show strength, willpower, normalcy—that’s his prescription”
― Michael Wolff, The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch

“lack of discipline, focus, purpose.”
― Michael Wolff, The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch

“Murdoch is a brilliant and manipulative bastard; Evans is a brilliant and easily manipulated man of taste and honor.”
― Michael Wolff, The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch

“fulmination”
― Michael Wolff, The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch

“bête noire.”
― Michael Wolff, The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch

“company built around the instincts, impulses, and gambles of its leader?”
― Michael Wolff, The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch

“So frustrating that they just want to get the deal done—get their fee and get out. If the client won’t acknowledge the rituals in a highly ritualized situation…if people don’t listen, if they can’t listen no matter how you explain…well, fuck it.”
― Michael Wolff, The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch