Top 31 Michael Ovitz Quotes
#1. Magic Johnson was in the seventh year of his Hall of Fame career when thoughts of his basketball afterlife led him to the office of uber-executive Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Hollywood's most powerful agency.
Don Yaeger
#2. You ask me why I dwell in the green mountain; I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care. As the peach-blossom flows down stream and is gone into the unknown, I have a world apart that is not among men.
Li Bai
#3. The human condition is not perfect. We are not perfect specimens, any of us. We're not robots.
Michael Ovitz
#4. But the pain I felt was excruciating. It was as if my life had ended. Here I was in my early twenties and the best part of my life was over. Do you see how terrible that would be? I had suc potential, then woke up one day and it had gone.
Haruki Murakami
#5. I must say that in my early years, I was incredibly aggressive. I was working as hard as I could to build a business, to try to dominate a business. And I probably irritated a lot of people.
Michael Ovitz
#6. A lot of drive is innate, self-perpetuated, reinforced energy. As a kid, I could always sell anything I could get my hands on - from newspapers to lemonade to 'TV Guide.' I knew how to make a presentation.
Michael Ovitz
#7. Mandatory arbitration clauses I think, more often than not, work to the detriment of working people.
Thomas Perez
#8. I'm not good at being static. I have to be climbing a mountain.
Michael Ovitz
#9. I believe sometimes I make some mistakes. And I don't think they are life-threatening mistakes.
Michael Ovitz
#10. We are only prepared to receive and comprehend the grace of God when we have understood His infinite holiness and our incredible sinfulness.
James MacDonald
#12. When I was at U.C.L.A., I worked my way through school as a tour guide at Universal Studios, and I came in contact with a lot of people in the agency business.
Michael Ovitz
#14. I'm not one to speak about myself. I like to speak about the people around me.
Michael Ovitz
#15. I have never run a public company. I spent my entire life working for a private company.
Michael Ovitz
#16. We don't believe we've solved the multicore-programming problem. But we think we've built an environment in which a certain class of problems can take advantage of the multicore architecture.
Rob Pike
#17. To sum up my idea of on-ice costume fashion sense, it's probably that too much is never enough.
Johnny Weir
#18. We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.
Daniel Kahneman
#19. I learned my first lesson at the Walt Disney Company about not being able to trust my associates.
Michael Ovitz
#20. When I get on a plane, I don't want a laid-back pilot. I want a pilot who is a control freak, who is paying attention to every single detail of his job.
Michael Ovitz
#21. The Internet is the greatest thing that ever happened to the entertainment industry.
Michael Ovitz
#22. Responsibility, in order to be reasonable, must be limited to objects within the power of the responsible party, and in order to be effectual, must relate to operations of that power, of which a ready and proper judgment can be formed by the constituents.
Alexander Hamilton
#23. Hollywood is a small, familial place. Everyone does business with everybody else. The same complications occur in investment banking.
Michael Ovitz
#24. A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example.
Peter Drucker
#25. I'm interested in what's new. I'm interested in change. I'm interested in a different game in life.
Michael Ovitz
#26. I've always made my decisions based on two factors: intellectual analysis and my gut. And when they meet, that's a go from me. That's when I see the goal.
Michael Ovitz
#27. It's not about money. The money will flow. It's about power and influence.
Michael Ovitz
#29. This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly.
Ron Wyden
#30. Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.
Mark Twain
#31. Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
Tacitus
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