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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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You can't succeed unless you've got failure, especially creatively.
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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.
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Failure is good as long as it does not become a habit.
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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 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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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 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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You either play by the rules, change the rules, or get out, altogether.
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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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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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You just have to make sure the model you're working on does not undersell your product.
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I gravitate toward the team thing. I'm not a golfer - I much prefer basketball.
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Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.
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