Lew Wasserman quotes

“To err is human, to forgive is against company policy.”
-- Lew Wasserman

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“You tend to meet on a more regular basis with people in your industry, and reality being what it is, you tend to meet with them at the particular level that you occupy; so that develops a fraternity relationship.”
-- Lew Wasserman

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“Stay out of the spotlight. It fades your suit.”
-- Lew Wasserman

Source : "Mr. & Mrs. Hollywood: Edie and Lew Wasserman and Their Entertainment Empire" by Kathleen Sharp, New York: Carroll & Graf, 2003.

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“Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.”
-- Lew Wasserman

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“To err is human, to forgive is against company policy.”

“I would forgive my mom, but she's going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.”

“You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me." I, also M. Ratchett." What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said.”

“When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.”

Source : Alan Paton (2011). “Too Late The Phalarope”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

“Stay and respond and expand and include and allow and forgive and enjoy and evolve and discern and inquire and accept and admit and divulge and open and reach out and speak up, this is utopia.”

“To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.”

“To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.”

“A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.”

Source : "The future of labor-management cooperative programs" by John Raymond Phillips, (p. 6), 1994.

“You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?”

Source : Alfred Jarry (2007). “The Ubu Plays: Includes: Ubu Rex; Ubu Cuckolded; Ubu Enchained”, p.22, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

“When you have trust and you get that trust in place throughout the company, people are empowered — people are free.”