Sheldon Adelson Quotes

120 Sheldon Adelson Quotes

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Just do things different.
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Change the status quo.
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The key factor in my strategy is longevity.
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It was the right idea at the right time.
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For me, businesses are like buses. You stand on a corner and you don’t like where the first bus is going? Wait ten minutes and take another. Don’t like that one? They’ll just keep coming. There’s no end to buses or businesses.
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The trade show is the seed for the industry’s growth.
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My courage in my own conviction was unshakable.
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The moneylender came to the house so often that I thought he was an uncle…
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We focus on the bottom line.
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The name of my game is to eat his lunch.
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Sometimes in business, some people are overwhelmed by their success.
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You take care of the customer with the best product and service you can make and profit follows you like your shadow.
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It’s unfair that I’ve been treated unfair – but it doesn’t stop me.
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I’m afraid of the trend where more and more people have the tendency to want to be given instead of wanting to give more.
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Money is fungible.
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Nobody ever helped me. I had to do everything on my own.
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I formed an opinion that if I did things differently than the way everybody did it that it would add value to every effort I made.
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The report card for a commercial enterprise is making money.
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Create a vision. Identify it and go for it.
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I didn’t go to business school.
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Asia can handle 10 Las Vegas’s, maybe I’m off a little bit maybe it’s 8, maybe it’s 12.
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In my entrepreneurial language, it’s a no-brainer. It’s like bringing a blanket to someone on an ice flow, or bringing water to someone in the desert.
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My mantra for success… Making the right decisions at the right time.
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For me, any business decision means that I need to have a decent profit margin. Hospitality sector, in itself, is not inviting enough. I deal in big money. Without gambling, setting up any resort doesn’t make sense… I deal in big money. I am not looking for a few dollars here and a few dollars there.
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I’ve already figured out when I’m going to be No. 2 and No. 1.
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I look at every business and ask, how long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?
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Why do I need succession planning? I’m very alert, I’m very vibrant. I have no intention to retire.
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I see Venice with different eyes. Without offending anyone, I think that Venice isn’t theirs… it doesn’t only belong to The Venetians or to the Italians… but to the whole world. It is a jewel box of various unique and magic treasures that must be appreciated and enjoyed by everybody.
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Every day a good fifty thousand people visit our Casino, strolling between Rialto and San Marco. People who are left ecstatic before your monuments, dumbfounded by the details of our reconstructions.
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[On Henri Lewin considered by Barron Hilton as ‘The best executive the company ever had’.] It’s all of our money, and we are making over a $103,600,000 wager, so to speak, on Mr [Henri] Lewin’s ability.
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[On in 1971 a $600 contractual dispute with the Beth Israel Hospital which has since been paid back] That was just one of a whole series of what I call household or personal kinds of expenses that arose out of a very severe financial reversal that I suffered with the drop in the market in May of 1969.
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Authenticity is so important to us.
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[On COMDEX which he created before selling in 1995] We are the largest independent trade show producer in the world.
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[On the proposed Sands project] It’s a very ambitious and unique undertaking. I might tell you there is not another hotel-casino property that has a facility of this nature in the entire world.
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I’m still willing to bet my $100 million on Mr Lewin… [He is] not an attacker of women. I still feel the same.
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Love the Chabad organization because they do for people who can’t do for themselves… What they preach is Judaism and they don’t shove it down the secular throat.
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[In 1984 on his computer trade show COMDEX] The trade show is the seed for the industry’s growth.
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[In 1984] I can’t explain the phenomenal growth of the show unless someone explains to me the phenomenal growth of the industry itself because [the show’s growth] parallels [the industry’s].
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Comdex came along when industry was making a transition from direct-sales forces to third-party sales forces. It was the right idea at the right time.
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[On COMDEX in 1984] I read a newspaper that just started called Computer Systems News. When I read it there were articles for dealers and distributors. It looked as though the whole industry were evolving to third-party sellers. When I started discussing it, I got so excited I couldn’t wait for the weekend to be over.
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