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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
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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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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 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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The only thing that gives [new technology] purpose is the kind of creative content we all produce.
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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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You just have to make sure the model you're working on does not undersell your product.
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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.
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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.
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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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Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.
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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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Failure is good as long as it does not become a habit.
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You either play by the rules, change the rules, or get out, altogether.
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Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years.
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Nobody has a bigger cult than Warren Buffett.
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My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth.
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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.
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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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Doing stuff that I don't have to talk about because I'm not in a public company is fantastic.
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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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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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