Michael Eisner

“Balanced emotions are crucial to intuitive decision making.”

“Many people you think are individual achievers in fact have either a strong spousal partner over many years or a business partner who's either in the background, not given enough publicity o...”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.'”

“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.”

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

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

“Nobody has a bigger cult than Warren Buffett.”