Words matter. These are the best Michael Eisner Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years.
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.
If you’re soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don’t mind kicking sand in your face.
Over time, the product we produce has been consistently successful here in America and around the world. Apparently, we are doing something right.
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.
There’s no good idea that can’t be improved on.
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.
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.
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.
My best idea was to not accept my wife’s negative reaction when I asked her to marry me.
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 media industry, bar none.
A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don’t isolate the family. We don’t make rides that say, ‘Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.’
You just have to make sure the model you’re working on does not undersell your product.
It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.
If it’s not growing, it’s going to die.
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.
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.
I gravitate toward the team thing. I’m not a golfer – I much prefer basketball.
