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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.

Michael Eisner

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Michael Eisner
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 7
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Michael Dammann Eisner
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I gravitate toward the team thing. I'm not a golfer - I much prefer basketball.
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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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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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Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.
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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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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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My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth.
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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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Failure is good as long as it does not become a habit.
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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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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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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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You either play by the rules, change the rules, or get out, altogether.
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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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