Michael Eisner

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

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.

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

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

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.'