Top 44 Quotes & Sayings by Philip Anschutz

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Philip Frederick Anschutz is an American billionaire businessman who owns or controls companies in a variety of industries, including energy, railroads, real estate, sports, newspapers, movies, theaters, arenas and music. In 2004, he purchased the parent company of the Journal Newspapers, which under Anschutz's direction became the American conservative editorial newspaper Washington Examiner.

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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.

Philip Anschutz

People want to do authentic things. They want to go horseback riding, fishing, shooting or searching for turtle nesting spots on the beach.

Philip Anschutz

I've been in the deal-making business for almost 50 years now. I've made a lot of them.

Philip Anschutz

If we can make some movies that have a positive effect on people's lives and on our culture, that's enough for me.

Philip Anschutz

My friends think I'm a candidate for a lobotomy, and my competitors think I'm naive or stupid or both. But you know what? I don't care.

Philip Anschutz

In Denver, if you get a reputation for being too competitive, people don't want to play with you or do business with you.

Philip Anschutz

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.

Philip Anschutz

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.

Philip Anschutz

We will be in the railroad business, first and foremost.

Philip Anschutz

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.

Philip Anschutz

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.

Philip Anschutz

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.

Philip Anschutz

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.

Philip Anschutz

Nothing communicates with the people who make real decisions in Hollywood like spending your own money and showing that you can make profitable films.

Philip Anschutz

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.

Philip Anschutz

Both the Anschutz Foundation and I contribute to numerous organizations that pursue a wide range of causes.

Philip Anschutz

I unequivocally support the rights of all people without regard to sexual orientation.

Philip Anschutz

The NFL should come to L.A.

Philip Anschutz

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.

Philip Anschutz

Oil and gas was an up-and-down business, at best.

Philip Anschutz

Hardly a week goes by that I don't get opportunities to buy a hotel.

Philip Anschutz

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.

Philip Anschutz

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.

Philip Anschutz

Why do you keep calling me 'Billionaire Philip Anschutz?' My mother never called me 'Billionaire.'

Philip Anschutz

Take action. When you take action, you can create the outcome.

Philip Anschutz

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.

Philip Anschutz

I'm better not operating at center stage.

Philip Anschutz

It's important to have your back to the wall. It makes you think outside the box.

Philip Anschutz

I'm not in the practice commonly of writing checks just for the fun of writing them.

Philip Anschutz

The world is full of nice hotels, but it is not full of great hotels.

Philip Anschutz

It doesn't do any good to sit on the sidelines all the time.

Philip Anschutz

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.

Philip Anschutz

All I have ever done in my life is work.

Philip Anschutz

For America, the period of 1800 to 1920 was an unparalleled time of broad expansion and growth driven by extraordinary factors unlike almost any other in history.

Philip Anschutz

In New York, the expectation seems to be that everyone will play his absolute hardest, be ultra-competitive, do anything necessary to win.

Philip Anschutz

We are fortunate to employ a wealth of diverse individuals throughout our family of companies, all of whom are important to us - the only criteria on which they are judged is the quality of their job performance; we do not tolerate discrimination in any form.

Philip Anschutz

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.

Philip Anschutz

Am I crazy? My opponents say I am, but I disagree.

Philip Anschutz

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.

Philip Anschutz

If I have a reputation for anything, it's for keeping a low profile.

Philip Anschutz

Sexuality is among the most personal of issues, and it has never been my intent to weigh in on people's private lives.

Philip Anschutz

I've always believed I could create the circumstances to succeed.

Philip Anschutz

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.

Philip Anschutz

Long a student and admirer of the American West, its history, its art, its culture, its cast of personalities, I'm aware that in the West a great confluence of events and people combined to create something unique in the annals of human history.

Philip Anschutz

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