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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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New York City
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Michael Dammann Eisner
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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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My best idea was to not accept my wife's negative reaction when I asked her to marry me.
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Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.
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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.
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My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth.
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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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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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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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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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If you're really good, you should express yourself...a lot.
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Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.
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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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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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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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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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I think when you get inured with the past, you get committed to the past, you stop growing.
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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.
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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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