Michael Eisner Quotes
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The company should be run from a creative point of view rather than a financial point of view.
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A decision will be made before it's too late or soon thereafter.
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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 is our only objective.
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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 middle ground.
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I gravitate toward the team thing. I'm not a golfer - I much prefer basketball.
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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 Penny's Bay, envisioning what could be, what would be, what will be. Six years later, through our dream partnership with Hong Kong government, the creative dream is now a reality. Hong Kong Disneyland stands before us as a living symbol of the creativity and imagination that are the heart and soul of Disney.
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Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.
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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 the background, not given enough publicity or less egocentric.
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Management is not a science, it is an art.
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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 is 95 percent of the population. So if there are 100 successful people in a room, probably 95 out of 100 came from more modest means.
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It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.
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Diversity is a great force towards creativity.
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The only thing that gives [new technology] purpose is the kind of creative content we all produce.
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In every business, in every industry, management does matter.
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It doesn't matter whether it comes in by cable, telephone lines, computor, or satellite. Everyone's going to have to deal with Disney.
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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 them successful.
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Doing stuff that I don't have to talk about because I'm not in a public company is fantastic.
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If you make something good, eventually the audience will be there, eventually there will be something on the Internet that is a cultural phenomenon that's not available anywhere else, that's not available on television broadcasts, that's not on cable, it's only on some Web site. And the world will find it. And when that happens, it will be what the 'kiss' was to the theatrical movie business, 5,000 years ago or whenever it was.
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I'm not sure I was a typical head of a company. Most people that run big companies come out of sales and they come out of marketing and they're quite serious and they have MBA's from very good schools and things like that. I'm an accidental CEO, thank the Disney Company.
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You just have to make sure the model you're working on does not undersell your product.
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To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.
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There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.
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My best idea was to not accept my wife's negative reaction when I asked her to marry me.
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I find that no matter how long a meeting goes on, the best ideas always come during the final five minutes, when people drop their guard and I ask them what they really think.
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If you're really good, you should express yourself...a lot.
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You either play by the rules, change the rules, or get out, altogether.
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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 technology is nothing new.
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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 itself is empty.
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The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher.
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I don't think individual achievement in business is the most meaningful way for it to operate.
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