David Geffen famous quotes

06-16-2025

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.
-- David Geffen

#Happiness #Money #Thinking
My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.
-- David Geffen

#Mother #Business #Taught
I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth.
-- David Geffen

#Kids #Arrogance #Draws
In Los Angeles, they don't want you to fail, they want you to die.
-- David Geffen

#Want #Failing #Los Angeles
Iâ€™ve always thought that each person invented himselfâ€¦ that we are each a figment of our own imagination. And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.
-- David Geffen

#People #Imagination #Imagine
You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else.
-- David Geffen

#Thinking #Ideas #Way
I'd rather kill myself than work in the music industry today.
-- David Geffen

#Today #Music Industry
I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris.
-- David Geffen

#Optimistic #Morris
I intend to be me. Whatever that is.
-- David Geffen
Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.
-- David Geffen
I have no talent except for being able to enjoy and recognize it in others.
-- David Geffen

#Able #Talent #Enjoy
To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.
-- David Geffen

#United States #Able #Privilege
Everybody in politics lies.
-- David Geffen

#Lying #Political
I am truly my mother's son.
-- David Geffen

#Mother #Son
I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I`ve known in my life. That`s just the truth.
-- David Geffen

#Bob #Dylan #Persons
It's very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they've made to my life.
-- David Geffen

#Incredibles #Easy #Made
Broke is a Hollywood term!
-- David Geffen

#Hollywood #Broke #Term
Move to California. Malibu is paradise.
-- David Geffen

#Moving #California #Paradise
I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theater, I didn't even know there was a show business.
-- David Geffen

#Jobs #Theater #Shows
It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad.
-- David Geffen

#Easy
HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.
-- David Geffen

#Growing #Apathy #Hiv
I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.
-- David Geffen

#School #Guy #Wizards
Most of the artists were trying to make a living, trying to get laid, trying to figure out who they were. They weren't trying to change the world. That's what other people put on them. I knew all those people. I knew them all, intimately and well. Bob Dylan. I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.
-- David Geffen

#Artist #People #Trying
Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling.
-- David Geffen

#Lying #Ease
In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.
-- David Geffen

#Cheating #Lying #Player
It's not a very big thing to say, 'I made a mistake' on the war, and typical of Hillary Clinton that she can't,
-- David Geffen

#War #Mistake #Typical
Your life isn't made up of people who aren't in it.
-- David Geffen

#People #Made
I`m not Sammy Glick. I`ve never killed anyone. I don`t have to. I`m too talented.
-- David Geffen
The concept known as bal tashchit--'Do no destroy'--has a special significance in Jewish tradition...We are constantly being warned in our faith that the capricious, thoughtless, wasteful destruction of the elements and creatures of the earth is wrong...We should remind ourselves daily of our responsibility to all aspects of creation.
-- David Geffen

#Nature #Responsibility #Special
The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.
-- David Geffen

#Opportunity #Entrepreneur #Scratches
I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.
-- David Geffen

#Believe #People #Denial

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