Sheldon Adelson Quotes

In any business, you have to evolve.

The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.

In a business, you've got to move on.

In the private sector, there is always innovation. There's always change. There's always improving productivity, and if you're not leading that, you'll be passed and ultimately go out of business. So there's an urgency to constantly update and renew and to rethink your enterprise.

Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo.

If companies don't think systemically enough - if they try to capture too much of the value - eventually, innovation moves somewhere else.

Any of our businesses will not exist in the form that is today, will not exist in the same form one year later, two years later... We have to worry about the disruptions in the business models and the practices.

To thrive, all businesses must focus on the art of self-disruption. Rather than wait for the competition to steal your business, every founder and employee needs to be willing to cannibalize their existing revenue streams in order to create new ones. All disruption starts with introspection.

You have to seed internal disruptors. You need sources of internal disruption. They don't guarantee your survival, but you have got to try.

Businesses that don't evolve are businesses that die.

Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does.

All economic activity is by definition "high risk." And defending yesterday--that is, not innovating--is far more risky than making tomorrow.

Strategy is about shaping the future.

I can turn an idea into a business before you know it's going to be important. My first step will blow by you.

You've got to keep reinventing. You'll have new competitors. You'll have new customers all around you.

The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present - and that's not fully valued.

The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected.

It's important to remember that innovators in business don't always get a platform.

When I started the diamond business, no black person, period, was in it to do what we're trying to do to change the industry. So I like to do things that I see clearly that are in my, you know, scope. And then, I had to figure how I get talented or smart business people around me to execute. That's what I have to do.

In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.

I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change.

We started Kotter International to improve leaders' ability to deal with big, important transformations in organizations - and in their lives.

There's always something happening in the world that creates an opportunity to try to fix a business and build a business.

Most of what we've done at SurveyMonkey is create a market, which I would say is much harder than trying to enter a market that already exists. But if you get it right, it can become a great business.

Part of the challenge of being an entrepreneur, if you're going for a really huge opportunity, is trying to find problems that aren't quite on the radar yet and try to solve those.