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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“All I have ever done in my life is work.”

“The NFL should come to L.A.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”