Top 62 Michael Eisner Quotes
#1. Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October.
Peter Bart
#2. Michael Eisner contacted me once and asked me if he could change the name of Disneyland to 'Braffland.' I said no, because whenever I go to Disneyland there's always fat people everywhere wearing tight clothes. Disneyland, frankly, has a lot of improving to do before it gets my namesake.
Zach Braff
#3. CUNNINGHAM. Publicist at Regis McKenna's firm who handled Apple in the early Macintosh years. MICHAEL EISNER. Hard-driving
Walter Isaacson
#4. In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.
Carroll O'Connor
#5. What brought me to Disney was the new regime, which is now the old regime, came over with Michael Eisner, Frank Wells, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and all these people really wanted to reinvigorate the animated musical, so they came to Howard Ashman and me. That was my entry into Disney.
Alan Menken
#6. years. MICHAEL EISNER. Hard-driving Disney CEO who made
Walter Isaacson
#7. Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years.
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#8. Failure is good as long as it does not become a habit.
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#10. You either play by the rules, change the rules, or get out, altogether.
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#11. The only thing that gives [new technology] purpose is the kind of creative content we all produce.
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#12. Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.
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#14. 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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#15. 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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#17. You just have to make sure the model you're working on does not undersell your product.
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#18. 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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#19. 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.
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#20. Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.
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#21. In every business, in every industry, management does matter.
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#22. I gravitate toward the team thing. I'm not a golfer - I much prefer basketball.
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#24. My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth.
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#26. 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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#27. 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.
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#29. The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher.
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#30. 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.
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#31. A brand is a living entity-and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures.
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#32. Failure is good as long as it doesn't become a habit.
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#34. 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.
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#35. 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.
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#36. To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.
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#37. My best idea was to not accept my wife's negative reaction when I asked her to marry me.
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#38. Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.
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#39. Creativity can flourish within sensible financial limitations.
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#40. User-generated content is not done by professionals. The best user-generated content eventually becomes those people gravitated in the professional world.
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#41. Doing stuff that I don't have to talk about because I'm not in a public company is fantastic.
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#42. The company should be run from a creative point of view rather than a financial point of view.
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#43. 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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#44. Privacy laws are our biggest impediment to us obtaining our objectives.
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#45. You can't succeed unless you've got failure, especially creatively.
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#46. I think when you get inured with the past, you get committed to the past, you stop growing.
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#47. 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.
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#48. Television is very much like the motion picture; you need high-end product that will first go on broadcast or cable and eventually on the Internet, and then the lifespan of this content being distributed worldwide.
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#49. A decision will be made before it's too late or soon thereafter.
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#50. 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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#51. 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.'
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#52. I don't think individual achievement in business is the most meaningful way for it to operate.
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#53. 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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#54. 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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#55. Over time, the product we produce has been consistently successful here in America and around the world. Apparently, we are doing something right.
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#56. If you're really good, you should express yourself ... a lot.
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#57. 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.
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#58. 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.
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#59. 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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#60. Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.
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#61. 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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#62. 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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