Michael Eisner famous quotes

It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.
-- Michael Eisner

#Good Luck #Once In A Lifetime #Selfless

A brand is a living entity-and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures.
-- Michael Eisner

#Gestures #Consciousness #Entity

To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.
-- Michael Eisner

#Mediocrity #Way

Management is not a science, it is an art.
-- Michael Eisner

#Art #Management

Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.
-- Michael Eisner

#Failure #Building #Easier

Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.
-- Michael Eisner

#Fear Of Failure #Possibility

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.
-- Michael Eisner

#Art #Making Money #Obligation

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.
-- Michael Eisner

#Technology #Entertainment #Hollywood

Nobody has a bigger cult than Warren Buffett,
-- Michael Eisner

#Warren Buffet #Bigger #Buffett

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 songs still resonate inside me. Competition exists at Keewaydin, of course, but nobody fails summer camp, a nice respite from winters of fortune and misfortune at school.
-- Michael Eisner

#Summer #Song #Nice

In every business, in every industry, management does matter.
-- Michael Eisner

#Doe #Matter #Management

My best idea was to not accept my wife's negative reaction when I asked her to marry me.
-- Michael Eisner

#Ideas #Wife #Negative

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.
-- Michael Eisner

#Successful #People #Biographies

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 noise.
-- Michael Eisner

#Views #Appreciate #Noise

You just have to make sure the model you're working on does not undersell your product.
-- Michael Eisner

#Doe #Models

My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth.
-- Michael Eisner

#Two #Lasts

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 media industry, bar none.
-- Michael Eisner

#Media #Years #America

I don't think individual achievement in business is the most meaningful way for it to operate,
-- Michael Eisner

#Meaningful #Thinking #Achievement

Balanced emotions are crucial to intuitive decision making.
-- Michael Eisner

#Decision #Decision Making #Emotion

I always went into an area that was in last place, with a philosophy, 'You can't fall off the floor.' And I was lucky, was at the right time and the right place, with the right ideas, and each one of these areas became number one.
-- Michael Eisner

#Positive #Philosophy #Fall

Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years.
-- Michael Eisner

#Couple #School #Years

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.
-- Michael Eisner

#Life #Failure #Experience

There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.
-- Michael Eisner

#Ideas #Innovation

The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher.
-- Michael Eisner

#Business #Oil #Want

I gravitate toward the team thing. I'm not a golfer - I much prefer basketball.
-- Michael Eisner

#Basketball #Team #Golfers

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.
-- Michael Eisner

#Ideas #Supportive #Conflict

Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.
-- Michael Eisner

#Originality #Sometimes #Worn

The only thing that gives [new technology] purpose is the kind of creative content we all produce.
-- Michael Eisner

#Technology #Giving #Creative

Years later, I found myself running a network television division and then a movie studio and now an entire entertainment company. But, much of the success I've achieved can be traced to the direct and metaphorical lessons I learned in building those campfires. I can hardly think of an aspect of my life that wasn't positively affected by my camping experience.
-- Michael Eisner

#Running #Thinking #Years

Diversity is a great force towards creativity.
-- Michael Eisner

#Creativity #Diversity #Being Different

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.
-- Michael Eisner

#Risk #Trying #Be Prepared

If it's not growing, it's going to die.
-- Michael Eisner

#Growth #Growing

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.
-- Michael Eisner

#Dream #Heart #Creativity

Creativity can flourish within sensible financial limitations.
-- Michael Eisner

#Creativity #Financial #Sensible

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.
-- Michael Eisner

#Mean #Successful #Odds

If you're really good, you should express yourself...a lot.
-- Michael Eisner

#Express Yourself #Should

You either play by the rules, change the rules, or get out, altogether.
-- Michael Eisner

#Baseball #Play

Privacy laws are our biggest impediment to us obtaining our objectives.
-- Michael Eisner

#Law #Privacy

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 that was available. God? I have no idea.
-- Michael Eisner

#Taken #School #College

Doing stuff that I don't have to talk about because I'm not in a public company is fantastic.
-- Michael Eisner

#Stuff #Fantastic #Company

A decision will be made before it's too late or soon thereafter.
-- Michael Eisner

#Decision #Too Late

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.
-- Michael Eisner

#Thinking #Genius #Lines

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.
-- Michael Eisner

#Shoes #Levels #Pairs

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.
-- Michael Eisner

#Strong #Thinking #Years

You can't succeed unless you've got failure, especially creatively.
-- Michael Eisner

#Failure #Succeed