Success Quote by Sumner Redstone

Redstone frames success as a scar tissue project, not a trophy case. The blunt repetition of "It's built on..". works like a builder's hammer: each strike rejects the comforting mythology that winners simply keep winning. Coming from a media mogul who lived through hostile takeovers, boardroom betrayals, and public legal warfare, the line reads less like inspirational poster copy and more like a justification for how power actually gets made and kept.

The specific intent is corrective. Redstone isn't praising failure in the abstract; he's repositioning it as infrastructure. "Failure" is the raw material, "frustration" is the fuel, and "catastrophe" is the forced renovation that makes the old plan impossible to return to. That escalation matters: he moves from the manageable (a mistake) to the emotionally corrosive (frustration) to the existential (catastrophe), arguing that the most transformative growth often arrives when choice is removed.

The subtext carries a distinctly late-20th-century corporate Darwinism. If catastrophe can be reframed as a foundation, then the bruising volatility of mergers, layoffs, and reputational crises becomes not merely survivable but narratively necessary. It's a worldview that rewards endurance and opportunism, and it quietly flatters the survivor: if you made it through, the suffering wasn't random - it was architecture.

There's also a slight tell in "Sometimes its built": the missing apostrophe feels accidental, but the looseness mirrors the message. Control is the fantasy; improvisation after impact is the skill.