Michael Eisner Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.”
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“A brand is a living entity-and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures.”
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“To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.”
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“Management is not a science, it is an art.”
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“Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.”
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“Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.”
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“We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.”
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“We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.”
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“Nobody has a bigger cult than Warren Buffett,”
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“To this day, I fondly recall the challenges of building a fire, pitching a tent, climbing a New England mountain, canoeing on a lake. Camp songs still resonate inside me. Competition exists at Keewaydin, of course, but nobody fails summer camp, a nice respite from winters of fortune and misfortune at school.”
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“In every business, in every industry, management does matter.”
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“My best idea was to not accept my wife's negative reaction when I asked her to marry me.”
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“When I read biographies, I'm only interested in the first few chapters. I'm not interested in when people become successful. I'm interested in what made them successful.”
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“Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be background noise.”
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“You just have to make sure the model you're working on does not undersell your product.”
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“My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth.”
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“21 years as CEO is a long time. I was and probably still am the longest serving CEO in America. Certainly I am in the media industry, bar none.”
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“I don't think individual achievement in business is the most meaningful way for it to operate,”
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“Balanced emotions are crucial to intuitive decision making.”
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“I always went into an area that was in last place, with a philosophy, 'You can't fall off the floor.' And I was lucky, was at the right time and the right place, with the right ideas, and each one of these areas became number one.”
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“Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years.”
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“Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.”
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“There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.”
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“The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher.”
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“I gravitate toward the team thing. I'm not a golfer - I much prefer basketball.”
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“The whole business starts with ideas, and we're convinced that ideas come out of an environment of supportive conflict, which is synonymous with appropriate friction.”
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“Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.”
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“The only thing that gives [new technology] purpose is the kind of creative content we all produce.”
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“Years later, I found myself running a network television division and then a movie studio and now an entire entertainment company. But, much of the success I've achieved can be traced to the direct and metaphorical lessons I learned in building those campfires. I can hardly think of an aspect of my life that wasn't positively affected by my camping experience.”
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“Diversity is a great force towards creativity.”
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