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Management is not a science, it is an art.

Michael Eisner

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Michael Eisner
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 7
Businessman
Businessperson
Chief Executive Officer
Entrepreneur
New York City
New York
Michael Dammann Eisner
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Management

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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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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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Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.
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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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Failure is good as long as it does not become a habit.
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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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My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth.
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You can't succeed unless you've got failure, especially creatively.
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Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years.
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I gravitate toward the team thing. I'm not a golfer - I much prefer basketball.
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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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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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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.
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You either play by the rules, change the rules, or get out, altogether.
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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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Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.
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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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The only thing that gives [new technology] purpose is the kind of creative content we all produce.
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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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