Words matter. These are the best Philip Anschutz Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
From the very first days of AEG, my vision has been to tie together world class real estate development structured around entertainment venues with premium sports and live entertainment content.
I unequivocally support the rights of all people without regard to sexual orientation.
I’m not in the practice commonly of writing checks just for the fun of writing them.
We will continue to set the standards in the industries in which AEG operates, bringing our unique vision and development model to entertainment locations throughout the world.
Hardly a week goes by that I don’t get opportunities to buy a hotel.
Four or five years ago I decided to stop cursing the darkness – I had been complaining about movies and their content for years – and instead to do something about it by getting into the film business.
I must have had an early leaning toward business. Not that I had an understanding of this when I was 10 years old, but when you see what can be done, the possibilities, you want to be involved in something. You want to own it.
Some of the early speculation I saw in the press was that I am a rail fan. I’m not. This is not a hobby. This is a full-time business, and a very serious one at that. We’re making this railroad work.
In Denver, if you get a reputation for being too competitive, people don’t want to play with you or do business with you.
Furthermore, I don’t believe you have to be quite that competitive to compete effectively. Beyond a certain point, all that bearing down is self-defeating.
It must operate at a profit. You can’t have any structure, especially not a long-term one, that does not have under it a firm financial foundation that can ensure its longevity.
It’s important to have your back to the wall. It makes you think outside the box.
There’s always a point that if you go forward you win, sometimes you win it all, and if you go back you lose everything.
There is nothing magic. We own 100-percent interests of venues around the world and partial interests of ventures around the world. We own 100-percent sports teams and we own partial sports teams. There’s no magic here.
I’m better not operating at center stage.
I’ve been in the deal-making business for almost 50 years now. I’ve made a lot of them.
Take action. When you take action, you can create the outcome.
My reasons for getting into the entertainment business weren’t entirely selfless. Hollywood as an industry can at times be insular and doesn’t understand the market very well. I saw an opportunity in that fact.
Properties like the Broadmoor diminish greatly in number over time. They flourish best if owned by a family with the values of stewardship, as opposed to seeing them as just another asset.
My gift to the Elton John Foundation is intended to emphasize that we support freedom of all people to live their lives peacefully, without interference from others.
We will be in the railroad business, first and foremost.
I’ve always believed I could create the circumstances to succeed.
Am I crazy? My opponents say I am, but I disagree.
In New York, the expectation seems to be that everyone will play his absolute hardest, be ultra-competitive, do anything necessary to win.
If we can make some movies that have a positive effect on people’s lives and on our culture, that’s enough for me.
Frankly, there are better things for me to invest in than these hotels. Stewards are really needed for these kind of properties – instead of investors.
I support the rights of all people and oppose discrimination and intolerance against the LGBTQ community. I see this as a matter of basic human rights.
I don’t mix business with anything. I don’t do business dinners. I don’t do business tennis. And I don’t do business squash.
People want to do authentic things. They want to go horseback riding, fishing, shooting or searching for turtle nesting spots on the beach.
If I have a reputation for anything, it’s for keeping a low profile.
Oil and gas was an up-and-down business, at best.
Sexuality is among the most personal of issues, and it has never been my intent to weigh in on people’s private lives.
The world is full of nice hotels, but it is not full of great hotels.
All I have ever done in my life is work.
Adversity is a huge advantage – as long as you think of it as an advantage – because it helps you do things you never thought you were capable of doing.
