Michael Eisner Quotes

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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.

  Michael Eisner

  Art, Money, Business

  "Michael Eisner: Monster, inc". www.independent.co.uk. December 07, 2003.

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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.

  Michael Eisner

  Good Luck, Selfless, Lucky

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

  Michael Eisner

  Small Gestures, Consciousness, Entity

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

  Michael Eisner

  Fear Of Failure, Possibility, Conditions

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• There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.

  Michael Eisner

  Ideas, Innovation, Growth

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• The company should be run from a creative point of view rather than a financial point of view.

  Michael Eisner

  Running, Views, Creative

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• Management is not a science, it is an art.

  Michael Eisner

  Art, Management

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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.

  Michael Eisner

  Lines, Matter, One Line

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• Failure is good as long as it does not become a habit.

  Michael Eisner

  Long, Doe, Habit

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• Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.

  Michael Eisner

  Originality, Sometimes, Worn

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• If you're really good, you should express yourself...a lot.

  Michael Eisner

  Express Yourself, Should, Ifs

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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.

  Michael Eisner

  Thinking, Ideas, Long

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• To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.

  Michael Eisner

  Mediocrity, Way, Another Way

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• Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.

  Michael Eisner

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• You either play by the rules, change the rules, or get out, altogether.

  Michael Eisner

  Baseball, Play

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• 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, Innovation, Trying

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• 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

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• We all know that the Disney brand is our most valuable asset. It is the sum total of our seventy-five years in business, of our reputation, of everything that we stand for.

  Michael Eisner

  Years, Reputation, Assets

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

  Michael Eisner

  Ideas, Wife, Negative

  "Michael Eisner: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. March 18, 2009.

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• If it's not growing, it's going to die.

  Michael Eisner

  Growth, Growing, Dies

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• 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

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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.

  Michael Eisner

  Running, School, Mba

  "Michael Eisner: Interview transcript". Interview with Kai Ryssdal, www.marketplace.org.

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• A decision will be made before it's too late or soon thereafter.

  Michael Eisner

  Decision, Too Late, Made

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• Content has always driven the business. Now it's no longer the queen to a king of distribution; it is the king, king, king, because the consumer has complete choice.

  Michael Eisner

  Kings, Queens, Choices

  "On the web, content is king". Interview by Kai Ryssdal, www.marketplace.org. August 13, 2009.

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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.

  Michael Eisner

  Successful, People, Biographies

  "Michael Eisner: What I've Learned" by cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. March 18, 2009.

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