Adelson Sheldon Quotes & Sayings

For those who wish to stay and work in computer science or technology, fields badly in need of their services, let's roll out the welcome mat. — Sheldon Adelson

Sheldon Adelson, for example, gave more than $53 million to Super PACs, but all eight of the candidates he supported lost.59 Karl Rove, a strategic mastermind who won fame advising George W. Bush, oversaw groups that spent $175 million and still lost twenty-one out of thirty elections. — Laurence H. Tribe

An entrepreneur is born with the mentality to take risks, though there are several important characteristics: courage, faith in yourself, and above all, even when you fail, to learn from failure and get up and try again. — Sheldon Adelson

So Israel won't be a democratic state, so what. — Sheldon Adelson

I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all. — Andrew Lang

I'm not in business to make money for the other guy. I'm in business to make money for myself. — Sheldon Adelson

I really like narrative songs, but I wonder if that's a thing for some people. Once they've heard the story, do they really need to hear the story again? — Craig Finn

Why do I need succession planning? I'm very alert, I'm very vibrant. I have no intention to retire. — Sheldon Adelson

I don't cry when I lose. There's always a new hand coming up. — Sheldon Adelson

Just wish it. But remember, it will only work if it's what you most desire. Do it now. We're running out of time."
WHAT I MOST DESIRE. WHAT I MOST DESIRE.
I looked into his electric eyes and made my wish. Then I popped the bean into my mouth and swallowed it whole.
For a moment, the world stood still. We sat in a silent bubble, just us two, insulated from the snow and the wind. His eyes widened. "But, Katrina, that wish was supposed to be for you."
"It's what I most desire."
And it was. — Suzanne Selfors

I am willing to spend whatever it takes ... My moral standard compels me to speak out on this issue because I am the largest company by far in the industry and I am willing to speak out. I don't see any compelling reason for the government to allow people to gamble on the Internet and nobody has ever explained except for the two companies whose special interest is going to be served if there is gaming on the Internet, Caesars and MGM. — Sheldon Adelson

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. — Sheldon Adelson

When I was writing my first novel, I smoked cigarettes. And when I think about what it was like to smoke, I remember exactly the feeling of sitting in front of my big old computer in that little room where I wrote my first novel. — Dani Shapiro

It's unfair that I've been treated unfair, but it doesn't stop me. — Sheldon Adelson

I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it? — Sheldon Adelson

Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder. — Hank Johnson

He's not a bold decision maker like Newt Gingrich is. Every time I talk to him, he says 'well let me think about it.' — Sheldon Adelson

I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art. — Gloria Trevi

The key factor in my strategy is longevity. — Sheldon Adelson

If I were to retire, I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say, Don't sell. — Sheldon Adelson

Result won't come if we don't provide the reason for it to come. — Sunday Adelaja

Entrepreneurship is essentially identifying the path that everyone takes; and choosing a different, better way. — Sheldon Adelson

Dearest Charles
I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as I am mourning for my lost innocence. It never looked like living. The doctors despaired of it from the start ... I am never quite alone. Members of my family keep turning up and collecting luggage and going away again, but the white raspberries are ripe. I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits. Love or what you will. S. — Evelyn Waugh

She wasn't afraid yet. It took a lot to terrify someone who played in time and space like a bathtub. — Maggie Stiefvater

I never thought about becoming wealthy. It never crossed my mind. What really motivated me was to try to accomplish something. — Sheldon Adelson

I see this as my humanitarian legacy. We're prepared to pay billions. — Sheldon Adelson

I've already figured out when I'm going to be No. 2 and No. 1. — Sheldon Adelson

Why is it fair that I should be paying a higher percentage of taxes than anyone else? — Sheldon Adelson

There's never been a real destination resort in Asia, and when we open the Venetian Macao, it will be the first. — Sheldon Adelson