Lew Wasserman Quotes

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• To err is human, to forgive is against company policy.
• 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…
• Stay out of the spotlight. It fades your suit.
• 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…
• Well, it was a typical meeting with the President. He was very gracious, very outgoing.
• I think the executives have matured enough so that they recognize that we have a two-party system. In California, we have more than a two-party…
• President Johnson offered the middle of the road.
• We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were…
• That room was not available, and the only other room had been booked for a Jewish bar mitzvah. I called the father and told him…
• I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the real…
• I think that our primary concern is that the membership in our industry become active. I'm not talking about the candidates being active. I'm talking…
• I was through as a manager. I did become involved late in the 1968 campaign at the national scene at the last minute. But I…
• Paul Newman's an old friend of ours out of Cleveland, Ohio. He used to sit around our house. He's the only man I've ever known…
• To me, it's the White House and always will be.

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