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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
Management
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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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My best idea was to not accept my wife's negative reaction when I asked her to marry me.
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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 think when you get inured with the past, you get committed to the past, you stop growing.
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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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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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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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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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Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.
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Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.
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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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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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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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If you're really good, you should express yourself...a lot.
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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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Nobody has a bigger cult than Warren Buffett.
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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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Doing stuff that I don't have to talk about because I'm not in a public company is fantastic.
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You can't succeed unless you've got failure, especially creatively.
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