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. 759
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. 697
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. 1.37K
I’m considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family – father, mother, children – is fundamental to our civilisation. 642
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. 835
