Sumner Redstone Quotes

United States, Businessman
May 27, 1923 – August, 11, 2020.

Sumner Murray Redstone was an American businessman and media magnate. He is the majority owner and chairman of the board of the National Amusements theater chain. Through National Amusements, Redstone and his family are majority voting shareholders of CBS Corporation and Viacom (itself the parent company of Viacom Media Networks, BET Networks, and the film studio Paramount Pictures). According to Forbes, as of September 2015, he was worth US$5 billion.

Opportunity does not knock. You have to find it.

Sumner Redstone
- Opportunity
- Find
- Knock
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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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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- Challenges
- Accept
- Risks
Sometimes divorce is better than marriage.

Sumner Redstone
- Marriage
- Better
- Divorce
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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- Looking
- Market
- Bottom
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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- Going
- Fail
- Far
I've always had that obsessive will to win and a commitment to excellence.

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- Win
- Will
- Excellence
We need to listen to consumers' needs.

Sumner Redstone
- Needs
- Listen
- Consumer

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.

Sumner Redstone
- Risk
- Succeed
- Rewards
To have big success, you must have big dreams, and you must be willing to take a chance.

Sumner Redstone
- Success
- Chance
- Dreams