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We need to listen to consumers' needs
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Consumers
Needs
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Sometimes divorce is better than marriage
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After Divorce
Divorce
Sometimes
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Sometimes divorce is better than marriage.
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Marriage
Divorce
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Opportunity does not knock. You have to find it
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Opportunity
Positive
Doe
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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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Great success is built on failure, frustration, even catastrophe.
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Built
Frustration
Great Success
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We recognize the need to adapt to a changing competitive environment.
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Environment
Adapt
Competitive
Recognize
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I've always had that obsessive will to win and a commitment to excellence.
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Commitment
Excellence
Winning
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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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To have big success, you must have big dreams, and you must be willing to take a chance.
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Death
Dream
Chance
Bigs
Willing
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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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Computers
Computer
Internet
Powerful
Way
Lots
Buy
Powerful Way
Yahoo
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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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Competition
Journal
Paid
Too Much
Wall
Wall Street Journal
Street
Street Journal
Wall Street
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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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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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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
Newspaper
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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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Records
Track
Years
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Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.
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Results
Track
Fast
Quarter
Viacom
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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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Creative
Suicide
Thinking
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We understand that the real market value of Blockbuster may never be fully realized as a wholly owned part of Viacom.
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Blockbuster
Fully
Owned
Viacom
Wholly
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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
Decision
Goodbye
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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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Inspirational
Inspiring
Success
Failure
Built
Catastrophe
Frustration
Sometimes
Success Failure Sometimes
Success Is
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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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Bulls
Economy
Nine
Nine Months
Thinking
Turns
Beginning
Bull
Bull Market
In The Beginning
Market
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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
Long
Order
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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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Bottom
Clear
Today
Tough
Recent
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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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Fads
Investing
Mtv
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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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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
Long
Winning
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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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Optimistic
Dubai
Hard Work
Turkeys
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The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because its a slow growth industry and I think they are dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers in 10 years. I read newspapers every day. I even read Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.
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Dying
Journal
Newspapers
Slow Growth
Wall
Wall Street Journal
Slow
Street Journal
Wall Street
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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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Messages
Stars
Thinking
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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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Opportunity
Past
Reality
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