29 Quotes by Sheldon Adelson

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

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.

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

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.

It’s unfair that I’ve been treated unfair, but it doesn’t stop me.

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.

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.’

I see this as my humanitarian legacy. We’re prepared to pay billions.

I’m not in business to make money for the other guy. I’m in business to make money for myself.