Michael Eisner

“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.”

“Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.”

“Doing stuff that I don't have to talk about because I'm not in a public company is fantastic.”

“Nobody has a bigger cult than Warren Buffett.”

“Failure is good as long as it doesn’t become a habit.”

“My best idea was to not accept my wife's negative reaction when I asked her to marry me.”

“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.”

“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.”

“If it's not growing, it's going to die.”

“We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.”

“Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years.”

“My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth.”

“Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.”

“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.”

“Over time, the product we produce has been consistently successful here in America and around the world. Apparently, we are doing something right.”