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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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Triumph is not constructed on triumph. It's fashioned from failure. It's constructed through vexation. At times its created by calamity.
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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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Sometimes divorce is better than marriage
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Opportunity does not knock. You have to find it
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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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I've always had that obsessive will to win and a commitment to excellence.
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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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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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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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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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Great success is built on failure, frustration, even 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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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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To have big success, you must have big dreams, and you must be willing to take a chance.
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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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We need to listen to consumers' needs
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The information superhighway is a dirt road that won't be paved over until 2025.
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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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Viacoms results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.
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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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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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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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The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money... But we are not going to buy Yahoo!
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I will believe in the 500-channel world only when I see it.
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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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