Michael Eisner Quotes

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• In every business, in every industry, management does matter.
• Doing stuff that I don't have to talk about because I'm not in a public company is fantastic.
• I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I've taken every comparative-religion course…
• Privacy laws are our biggest impediment to us obtaining our objectives.
• My best idea was to not accept my wife's negative reaction when I asked her to marry me.
• 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…
• 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…
• You just have to make sure the model you're working on does not undersell your product.
• Many people you think are individual achievers in fact have either a strong spousal partner over many years or a business partner who's either in…
• I find that, once you get into a position where you can afford a pair of shoes and a decent level of living, success in…
• There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some…
• A decision will be made before it's too late or soon thereafter.
• If you're really good, you should express yourself...a lot.
• You either play by the rules, change the rules, or get out, altogether.
• My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth.
• 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…
• The odds of being successful are the same for every group that is educated in America. It's just that the group that is not wealthy…
• Management is not a science, it is an art.
• Creativity can flourish within sensible financial limitations.
• You can't succeed unless you've got failure, especially creatively.

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