Quotes from Michael Eisner

The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher.

The whole business starts with ideas, and we're convinced that ideas come out of an environment of supportive conflict, which is synonymous with appropriate friction.

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.

Content has always driven the business. Now it's no longer the queen to a king of distribution; it is the king, king, king, because the consumer has complete choice.

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

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.

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

To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.

You can't succeed unless you've got failure, especially creatively.

Failure is good as long as it doesn't become a habit.

Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.

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.

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

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.

A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don't isolate the family. We don't make rides that say, 'Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.'

Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.