No one`s going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.

You can`t build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.

Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.

Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.

In motivating people, you`ve got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.

I try to keep in touch with the details... I also look at the product daily. That doesn`t mean you interfere, but it`s important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what`s happening.

There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there`s just millions of voices and people want to be heard.

I am amazed that CNN can`t get its act together.

I`m a catalyst for change. You can`t be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir `em up, but you can`t do that on television. It`s just not on.

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

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