Peter Guber Quotes

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• Good storytelling is harder than it sounds, but the easy part is that everyone has the ability to do it. ...Tap into it.
• With a purposeful story, you can change a "wanna be" to a "gonna be" to a "be".
• There are no rules, but you break them at your peril.
• A German shepherd dog could walk in the office with a script in his mouth, and if that script was really good, they'd buy the…
• There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection, shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump…
• Today everyone, whether they know it or not, is in the emotional transportation business. More and more, success is won by creating compelling stories that…
• Miss the audience's heart as a filmmaker, and the only wallet that gets hit will be your own. That's because the heart is always the…
• The arts tend to be more liberal. There tends to be more social relevance in the arts.
• Social cohesion was built into language long before Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter - we're tribal by nature. Tribes today aren't the same as tribes…
• Are you motivated? Are you coherent? Is your intention aligned? Are your feet, tongue, heart and wallet congruent? That intention shines through.
• At Casablanca we did 'Midnight Express,' 'Flashdance,' and 'The Deep.' My willingness for risk has always been my strength.
• Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the…
• Nothing replaces being in the same room, face-to-face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions.
• Stories aren't the icing on the cake; they are the cake!
• The portal into people's hearts is being interested in them.
• Use state-of-the-heart technology online and offline to turn listeners into viral advocates and customers into raving fans.
• When you want to move somebody, you have to say to yourself: 'I'm in the emotional transportation business. I gotta move them, emotionally.
• A gun can be dangerous. But a gun can protect you, you can hunt for food with it - you know, the tool itself is…
• Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So…
• In any situation that calls for you to persuade, convince or manage someone or a group of people to do something, the ability to tell…

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