Michael Eisner Quotes

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• There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.
• Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.
• The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher.
• A brand is a living entity-and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures.
• I gravitate toward the team thing. I'm not a golfer - I much prefer basketball.
• 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.
• Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.
• I remember the first time we stood in this spot. We were on the deck of a boat in the middle of what was then…
• If it's not growing, it's going to die.
• Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.
• Diversity is a great force towards creativity.
• The only thing that gives [new technology] purpose is the kind of creative content we all produce.
• Balanced emotions are crucial to intuitive decision making.
• I don't think individual achievement in business is the most meaningful way for it to operate,
• Nobody has a bigger cult than Warren Buffett,
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.
• To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.

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