Quotes from David Geffen

The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.

Move to California. Malibu is paradise.

It's the perfect definition of a settlement. Both parties didn't get what they wanted.

I am truly my mother's son.

I'd rather kill myself than work in the music industry today.

Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling.

I am truly my mother's son.

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.

I've always thought that each person invented himself… that we are each a figment of our own imagination. And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.

Your life isn't made up of people who aren't in it.

I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth.

In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.

I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.

It's very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they've made to my life.

I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.

I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris.

I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.

Happy is harder than money. Anybody who thinks money will make you happy hasn't got money.

I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.

HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.

You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else.