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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.

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Michael Eisner
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 7
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Michael Dammann Eisner
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If you're really good, you should express yourself...a lot.
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Doing stuff that I don't have to talk about because I'm not in a public company is fantastic.
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Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.
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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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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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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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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.
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