Sumner Redstone Quotes

• 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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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• Opportunity does not knock. You have to find it

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  Positive, Opportunity, Doe

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• Sometimes divorce is better than marriage

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  Divorce, Sometimes, After Divorce

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• To have big success, you must have big dreams, and you must be willing to take a chance.

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  Dream, Chance, Bigs

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• 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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  Success, Order, Long

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• Great success is built on failure, frustration, even catastrophe.

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  Frustration, Great Success, Built

  "I Am American Business". CNBC Interview, www.cnbc.com.

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• 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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  Inspirational, Business, Challenges

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

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  Commitment, Winning, Excellence

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• 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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  Mtv, Investing, Fads

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

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  Technology, Dirt Roads, Information

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• 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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  Business, Challenges, Risk

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• 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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  Hard Work, Optimistic, Dubai

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• 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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  Fighting, Winning, Long

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• 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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  Thinking, Bulls, Nine

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• 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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  Daughter, Goodbye, Decision

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

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  Powerful, Way, Computer

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• We need to listen to consumers' needs

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  Needs, Consumers

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• I am very pleased with the progress of the new CBS Corporation. The Company's rapid pace of change and innovative approach to emerging business opportunities can be seen in the many strategic announcements we have made over these past few months. The more focused and more nimble organization we sought to create has become a reality and that aggressive spirit of excellence and innovation will continue to benefit shareholders for many years to come.

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  Past, Opportunity, Reality

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• 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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  Stars, Thinking, Messages

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• Viacoms results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.

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  Years, Track, Records

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• 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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  Dying, Newspapers, Not Sure

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

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  Believe, World

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

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  Suicide, Thinking, Creative

  "Overcoming 'Creative Suicide': What's Next for Tom Cruise?" by Buck Wolf, abcnews.go.com. August 23, 2006.

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• 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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  Today, Tough, Clear

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• Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition.

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  Wall, Competition, Too Much

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