Viacom's Quotes

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

Sumner Redstone

#2. There could be no better time to fully integrate Infinity with Viacom's tremendous portfolio of assets. Infinity is performing at record levels and continues to generate a tremendous amount of free cash flow that will now fully benefit Viacom.

Mel Karmazin

#3. At great, great remove sit the head of General Electric, the head of News Corp, the head of Viacom, or the head of this giant international corporation that wants these ratings.

Norman Lear

#4. 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.

Sumner Redstone

#5. If you're an independent, you don't get on TV. And in the rare instances that you do get on, you get a fraction of what that very same movie would get if it came in through Fox or Viacom.

Lloyd Kaufman

#6. Ranbir Kapoor single-handedly kept the gossip industry afloat in the country this year.

Anonymous

#7. I really do believe the final act in play is a crisis in our financial institutions, which are doing such dumb, dumb things,

Michael Lewis

#8. When I got fired, I had a feeling of loss because Viacom had been a passionate long-term relationship. But I got my balance back. I guess it's like getting jilted by a girlfriend, a serious girlfriend. You move on.

Tom Freston

#9. They that live at the source of a great river shall always take the great river for granted but they that live at the estuary of the great river shall always watch the great river in awe and admiration!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#10. I'm sometimes accused of being hostile to mutual funds. That's not fair, really. There is a place for them. Still, I am hostile to one thing, which is trying to use funds to time your way in and out of the market. That's a recipe for very bad results.

Kenneth Fisher

#11. Settle yourself down for an apocryphal bedtime story. A programmer's parable, if you will ... .

Anonymous

#12. 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.

Sumner Redstone

#13. He sent Zuckerberg a letter proposing Viacom would pay $1.5 billion to buy the two-year-old company.

David Kirkpatrick

#14. any individual can create a word class online store for less than the cost of their cable bill.

Brian Patrick

#15. Despair is easy, or at least low cost.

Rebecca Solnit

#16. In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.

Havelock Ellis

#17. 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.

Sumner Redstone

#18. We understand that the real market value of Blockbuster may never be fully realized as a wholly owned part of Viacom.

Sumner Redstone

#19. The world clamors, "Do more! Be all that you can be!" But our Father whispers, "Be still and know that I am God.

Joanna Weaver

#20. Hip-Hop's cultural movement is much larger than the corporate representation. The images most of hip-hop's critics point to are those manufactured by major corporations whether on television, via Viacom, or on the radio, via Radio One and Clear Channel.

Bakari Kitwana

#21. You will have sacrificed the lives of the people for personal honor, an empty word," Luan said. "That seems to me a most selfish act.

Ken Liu

#22. Sometimes you have to know what you're willing to sacrifice to be the person you are meant to be.

Erik Tomblin

#23. Feel the feeling as though the prayer has already been answered, and in that feeling we are speaking to the Forces of Creation, allowing the world to respond to us.

Gregg Braden

#24. The reason I've been able to maintain my position of chairman of CBS in addition to all the Viacom stuff is my team.

Leslie Moonves