Quotes by Michael Eisner

"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."

"There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground."

"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."

"You just have to make sure the model you're working on does not undersell your product."

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

"If it's not growing, it's going to die."

"I gravitate toward the team thing. I'm not a golfer - I much prefer basketball."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"There's no good idea that can't be improved on."

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

"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."

"I don't think individual achievement in business is the most meaningful way for it to operate."

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

"Nobody has a bigger cult than Warren Buffett."

"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."

"In every business, in every industry, management does matter."

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