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.


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Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re f...
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I take my hand back, like a leaf letting go. It hurts too much to hang on. So why does it hurt so mu...
EMILY MURDOCH
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
IRIS MURDOCH
... male company, sheer complicit male company: the complicity of males which is like, indeed is, a ...
IRIS MURDOCH
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
IRIS MURDOCH
What is more tormenting than a meeting after a long time, when all the words fall to the ground like...
IRIS MURDOCH
My emotions swirl like leaves caught in the breath of a dust devil, and the only thing I can seem to...
EMILY MURDOCH
Even if readers claim that they 'take it all with a grain of salt', they do not really. They yearn t...
IRIS MURDOCH
I went to a foot specialist recently and she said:
"You've broken a bone, it's healed funny." STUART MURDOCH
It made it hard to come back.
DAVID MURDOCH
It is hard to take because the chance was there. It will be with me for a long time but I am hoping ...
DAVID MURDOCH
We really couldn't have done any more. We trained our hearts out and prepared as well as we could an...
DAVID MURDOCH
That's fine. It's what we expected. We get a chance to get our revenge on Finland. We are going in v...
DAVID MURDOCH
It feels fantastic to finally get started after all the build-up. We are not quite used to the ice y...
DAVID MURDOCH
I'm happy because I've got a great team behind me.
DAVID MURDOCH
We are all getting on fine and our third place in the European Championships showed we can play well...
DAVID MURDOCH
We are all very well and looking forward to it. We had a really excellent four or five days of inten...
DAVID MURDOCH
We've beaten all our opposition at different times, so we know we are capable of beating them on the...
DAVID MURDOCH
Love generates, or rather reveals, something which may be called absolute charm. In the beloved noth...
IRIS MURDOCH
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more ...
IRIS MURDOCH
Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ...
IRIS MURDOCH
I know how much you grieve over those who are under your care: those you try to help and fail, those...
IRIS MURDOCH
The whole rationale is being driven by the consumer. They want the whole home solution with the best...
JAMES MURDOCH
We've reached a point where integration into a home entertainment platform will be both viable and a...
JAMES MURDOCH
This positions Sky very well to take a leading position in what we think is a very attractive and fa...
JAMES MURDOCH
Today?s offer reflects the exciting opportunities that now exist to combine quality entertainment wi...
JAMES MURDOCH
Taiwan is Asia's most well-established and vibrant cable market,
JAMES MURDOCH
I am sure he will help us build Sky's reputation as the nation's number one entertainment choice,
JAMES MURDOCH
I fully intend to be here for the long term. It is a strategy that's going to take a lot of work. I'...
JAMES MURDOCH
My hope and my intention is that as long as the board is satisfied with the work that I'm doing that...
JAMES MURDOCH
I fully intend to be here (at Sky) in the long term, I'm fully committed. So you're stuck with me,
JAMES MURDOCH
[It will] blow people backwards out of their living room.
JAMES MURDOCH
The past and the present are after all so close, so almost one, as if time were an artificial teasin...
IRIS MURDOCH
The things most likely to get earwigs are dahlias.
RICHARD MURDOCH
I would just like my children to be able to eat fish when they grow up. Now, I don't think there...
JAMES MURDOCH
If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together.… there is something you must always remember....
EMILY MURDOCH
Wood is weirdly a big passion of mine. I really love it, all the way from trees to a finished table....
RUPERT FRIEND
Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that succes...
RUPERT HOLMES
I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar,...
RUPERT GRAVES
You fire blanks, but the guns eject real brass, hot cartridges. They're, like, 400 degrees.
RUPERT FRIEND
Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But...
RUPERT BROOKE
Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindlin...
RUPERT BROOKE
All the little emptiness of love!
RUPERT BROOKE