Top 26 Sumner Redstone Quotes
#1. It was always tough, but today we are in the throes of something we have never seen in our history. It's clear in recent times the market is looking for a bottom.
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#2. I've always had that obsessive will to win and a commitment to excellence.
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#3. Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.
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#4. We recognize the need to adapt to a changing competitive environment.
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#5. The explosion was good. It sent a message to the rest of the world that the time of the big star getting all this money is over. And it is! I would like to think that what I did, or what we did, has had a salutary effect on the rest of the industry.
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#6. One doesn't accept bad challenges. Part of it is always the risk-taking without seeing that the risks are rational and the rewards are commensurate.. are more than commensurate.. with the risks.
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#7. Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.
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#8. The information superhighway is a dirt road that won't be paved over until 2025.
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#10. We understand that the real market value of Blockbuster may never be fully realized as a wholly owned part of Viacom.
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#11. At the time we acquired Viacom, everyone said I had overpaid. But even at today's depressed prices, that investment is worth billions. Everyone was saying MTV was a fad. I knew better.
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#12. Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition.
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#13. We don't think that someone who effectuates creative suicide and costs the company revenue should be on the lot,
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#14. I will believe in the 500-channel world only when I see it.
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#15. The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money ... But we are not going to buy Yahoo!
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#16. I love Viacom. I love CBS. And so I don't want to die. I have a will to live. The same will to win that I've always had. And - I'm gonna fight death as long as I can. I like it here. I don't want to go anywhere else.
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#18. I think we're in the beginning of a bull market. When a bull market begins, nine months later the economy turns around.
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#19. In order to succeed, you have to live dangerously.. as long as the danger is rationally accepted and as long as the rewards far outweigh the risk.
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#20. The newspaper is dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers and its one business I'd never be in.
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#21. I listen to my daughter. I listen to Paula, but I make the decisions. The decision to say goodbye to Cruise was mine.
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#23. The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because its a slow growth industry and I think they are dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers in 10 years. I read newspapers every day. I even read Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.
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#24. When I lose my marbles which is never, when I lose my energy, I travel the world today for Viacom, China, Turkey, Dubai, Kuwait. When that happens, I'll know enough to retire, but that's never gonna happen. I'm here for forever.
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#25. We all have to decide how we are going to fail, by not going far enough or by going too far.
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#26. Great success is built on failure, frustration, even catastrophy.
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