When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

• 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.
• I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible.
• The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.
• It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests.
• We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll sell our business news and information in print, we'll sell it to anyone who's got a cable system, and we'll sell it on the Web.
• One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.
• Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.
• The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.
• When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.
• I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.