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 think you manifest what you believe, and when you believe that you have no choice you lose choice.

Alice Englert

#3. The thing had woken him up as usual, an alarm clock. as reliable and stiff off the ground as Big Fucking Ben. [John Matthew]

J.R. Ward

#4. I've always had that obsessive will to win and a commitment to excellence.

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#5. Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.

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#6. The only reason pain exists is because we let it feed on us and that gives it the power to continue existing (I.R.V)

Reshma Valliappan

#7. We recognize the need to adapt to a changing competitive environment.

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#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. 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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#11. Derek favored his left side. His horse refused to bear him. I couldn't blame the horse. I wouldn't want his demonic, undead-blood-smeared, wolf-smelling ass riding me, either. But it made us slow.

Ilona Andrews

#12. The information superhighway is a dirt road that won't be paved over until 2025.

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#13. We need to listen to consumers' needs.

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#14. The instructor is always silent when the test is given ... When God is silent in your life ... You are being tested.

Rick Warren

#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition.

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#18. We don't think that someone who effectuates creative suicide and costs the company revenue should be on the lot,

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#19. I will believe in the 500-channel world only when I see it.

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#20. The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money ... But we are not going to buy Yahoo!

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#21. 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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#22. Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.

Jorge Luis Borges

#23. Sometimes divorce is better than marriage.

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#24. 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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#25. 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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#26. Your place in life is not fixed by heredity.

Wallace D. Wattles

#27. 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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#28. She asked where he lived.
Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning.

J.M. Barrie

#29. You were amazing." He

Nora Sakavic

#30. People are trying so hard to become famous. Johnny Marbles, he tried to throw a pie in Rupert Murdoch's face. What do I gotta do, give Sumner Redstone a wedgie?

Andy Kindler

#31. Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.

Garrison Keillor

#32. 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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#33. Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.

Joey Santiago

#34. Opportunity does not knock. You have to find it

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#35. 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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#36. The most important element of the foster care system is getting kids out of foster care and into a permanent placement so they don't have to spend their entire childhoods in courtrooms, wondering if they will ever have a place to call home.

Rhea Perlman

#37. 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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#38. To be famous is to stand on a pedestal and give the world permission to tell you all your flaws.

Chris Colfer

#39. I've never met Eminem; you don't meet Eminem. He has his own secret service.

Chance The Rapper

#40. 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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#41. Great success is built on failure, frustration, even catastrophy.

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