42 Famous Quotes by Roger Ailes
Roger Ailes was an American media executive who was the founder and CEO of Fox News. Ailes was a polarizing figure in the media world, known for his conservative politics and his controversial management style. His work helped to shape the modern media landscape, and his impact on American politics and culture cannot be overstated. Despite his many detractors, Ailes was a skilled communicator and strategist, and his legacy continues to be felt in the world of media and politics. (Roger Ailes Biography).
Roger Ailes Famous Quotes
1. "I only understand friendship or scorched earth."
2. "If we look conservative, it's because the other guys are so far to the left."
3. "All business is basically about customers and marketing and making money and capitalism and winning and promoting it and having something someone really wants."
4. "If you're making money, and you've hit your targets for five years, you don't need to demand a new contract."
5. "The difference between pros and amateurs is that pros play hurt."
6. "The news business is simple, but it's not easy to do well."
7. "I quit politics because I hated it."
8. "I don't rise to the occasion when there's no occasion."
9. "Joe McGinniss will be remembered as a talented man. He changed political writing forever in 1968. We differed on many things, but he had a good heart."
10. "Audiences are shifting. Platforms are shifting. Ages are shifting. It's better to be in charge of change than to have to react to change."
11. "We're not programming to conservatives. We're just not eliminating their point of view."
12. "There is a tendency in the media to simplify me to the point that I am somehow a tough guy. I think there is a lot more to me."
13. "I think almost everything in life is life-experience, personality-driven."
14. "There is a - deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me."
15. "You never pull the trigger until you know you can win."
16. "What I think works for Fox News is we have a very direct form of communication."
17. "We didn't have locks in the early 1940s because nobody got into anybody's house, and nobody did anything wrong."
18. "I don't care about my legacy. It's too late. My enemies will create it, and they'll push it."
19. "In most news, if you hear a conservative point of view, that's called bias. We believe if you eliminate such a viewpoint, that's bias."
20. "CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad."
21. "I don't have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people in a mall to be paid $40 to tell me how to do my job, I shouldn't do my job."
22. "Television and I grew up together."
23. "My doctor told me that I'm old, fat, and ugly, but none of those things is going to kill me immediately."
24. "Everybody fears the unknown. But I have a strong feeling there's something bigger than us. I don't think all this exists because some rocks happened to collide. I'm at peace. When it comes, I'll be fine, calm. I'll miss life, though. Especially my family."
25. "Obama's the one who never worked a day in his life. He never earned a penny that wasn't public money. How many fund-raisers does he attend every week? How often does he play basketball and golf? I wish I had that kind of time."
26. "I can't stand cruel people. And if I see people doing something mean to somebody else just to make themselves feel important, it really gets me mad."
27. "CNN and MSNBC, our primary competitors, are trying to figure out how to beat us. There are some good, smart people at those networks, and even occasionally a blind pig finds an acorn."
28. "If somebody wants to book Alec Baldwin on one of our shows, and he wants to come on and talk to our people and say what he wants, I don't care. We would question him on his choice of words."
29. "I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was."
30. "Tell me who you want to see on the Left, and I'll hire them. If you give me a big name that's out there, that's floating around and wants work, I'd be happy to hire them."
31. "Growing up in Ohio and just being kind of an average guy from flyover country - my dad was a factory guy - I try to put things on a screen that reflect reality. I don't mind if people want to argue with that, or think that's crazy."
32. "I look for something unique, and I look for people who haven't reached their potential. I think I'm pretty good at developing talent."
33. "It would be a lie to say that I don't care what people say about me. Every human being cares unless they're nuts. Am I nuts? But you can't allow that to override your mission."
34. "You cannot allow whether someone likes you or not to alter your course of action. Sometimes I think, 'Sure, that hurts my feelings.' But it's not so important that I will adjust what I'm doing because someone is not going to like me."
35. "I'm not trying to be anyone. You know why other executives always hire phonies? Because they're phonies. They hire phonies because they like phonies. They're comfortable with them."
36. "The press is supposed to watch the powerful. And not throw in with them."
37. "I believe business news is general news."
38. "I believe most people think the economy is very important."
39. "I could never be elected."
40. "I want clean water and clean air and conservation... that's not what extreme environmentalists are all about. For them, it is a religion. They believe in trees and animals, not God."
41. "Usually, there are three or four major news spikes per year."
42. "Anybody who knows me knows that half the time I'm saying things with a somewhat humorous overtone."
― Roger Ailes Quotes
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