Michael Eisner Quotes

“If you're soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don't mind kicking sand in your face.”

“In every business, in every industry, management does matter.”

“Many people you think are individual achievers in fact have either a strong spousal partner over many years or a business partner who's either in the background, not given enough publicity or less egocentric.”

“It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.”

“We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems.”

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

“Art is literacy of the heart.”

“Balanced emotions are crucial to intuitive decision making.”

“I became a member of the faculty at Northwestern University in 1965 but did not complete my thesis until two years later at a graduate ceremony at which Carnegie Institute of Technology became Carnegie-Mellon University. At Northwestern, I was mentored by the 'three Bobs:' Robert Eisner, Robert Strotz and Robert Clower.”

“Oh, let what I am keep on existing and ceasing to exist,and let my obedience align itself with such iron      conditionsthat the quaking of deaths and of births doesn't shakethe deep place I want to reserve for myself eternally.”