Quote

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.

Michael Eisner

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Michael Eisner
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 7
Businessman
Businessperson
Chief Executive Officer
Entrepreneur
New York City
New York
Michael Dammann Eisner
Position
Pair
Success
Pairs
Living
Afford
Find
Decent
Shoes
Empty
Level
Levels

More quotes by Michael Eisner

Image
Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be background noise.
Michael Eisner
Image
User-generated content is not done by professionals. The best user-generated content eventually becomes those people gravitated in the professional world.
Michael Eisner
Image
You can't succeed unless you've got failure, especially creatively.
Michael Eisner
Image
Failure is good as long as it does not become a habit.
Michael Eisner
Image
Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.
Michael Eisner
Image
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.
Michael Eisner
Image
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.
Michael Eisner
Image
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
Image
It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.
Michael Eisner
Image
You just have to make sure the model you're working on does not undersell your product.
Michael Eisner
Image
The only thing that gives [new technology] purpose is the kind of creative content we all produce.
Michael Eisner
Image
Nobody has a bigger cult than Warren Buffett.
Michael Eisner
Image
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.
Michael Eisner
Image
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.
Michael Eisner
Image
I think when you get inured with the past, you get committed to the past, you stop growing.
Michael Eisner
Image
My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth.
Michael Eisner
Image
Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years.
Michael Eisner
Image
My best idea was to not accept my wife's negative reaction when I asked her to marry me.
Michael Eisner
Image
Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.
Michael Eisner
Image
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.
Michael Eisner