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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.

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.

Michael Eisner

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.

Michael Eisner

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

Michael Eisner

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.

Michael Eisner

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

Michael Eisner

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

Michael Eisner

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.

Michael Eisner

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.

Michael Eisner

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.

Michael Eisner

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.'

Michael Eisner

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

Michael Eisner

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

Michael Eisner

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

Michael Eisner

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

Michael Eisner

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

Michael Eisner

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

Michael Eisner

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

Michael Eisner