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Michael Eisner Biography

Michael Dammann Eisner (born March 7, 1942) is an American businessman. Eisner was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of The Walt Disney Company from 1984 until 2005. Prior to Disney, Eisner was President and CEO of rival movie studio, Paramount Pictures, from 1976 to 1984, and had brief stints at the major television networks: NBC, CBS, and ABC.

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

Achievement, Meaningful, Think, Thinking, Way

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.

Avant Garde, Fine, Genius, Ground, Thinking, Troglodyte

Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.

Burnt, Original, Originality, Sometimes, Worn

I'm not sure I was a typical head of a company. Most people that run big companies come out of sales and they come out of marketing and they're quite serious and they have MBA's from very good schools and things like that. I'm an accidental CEO, thank the Disney Company.

Running, School, Mba, Run, Quite, Sales

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.

Media, Years, America, Industry

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

Fear Of Failure, Possibility, Conditions, Possibilities, Kills, Worse

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

Experience, Failure, Life, Succeeding

You either play by the rules, change the rules, or get out, altogether.

Altogether, Baseball, Change, Play, Rules

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.

Art, Business, Make, Money, Objective

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.

Kings, Queens, Choices, Choice, Queen, Content

To this day, I fondly recall the challenges of building a fire, pitching a tent, climbing a New England mountain, canoeing on a lake. Camp songs still resonate inside me. Competition exists at Keewaydin, of course, but nobody fails summer camp, a nice respite from winters of fortune and misfortune at school.

Summer, Song, Nice, Fire, Pitching, Lake

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.

Shoes, Levels, Pairs, Position, Living, Success

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.

Taken, School, College, Jewish, Available, Baptist

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

Doe, Models, Product, Products, Undersell, Working

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

Doe, Industry, Management, Matter

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

Coming, Lasts, Ninth, Outs, Strength, Two

Balanced emotions are crucial to intuitive decision making.

Balanced, Decision, Emotion, Emotions, Intuitive, Making

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

Couple, Graduate, Place, School, Years

The company should be run from a creative point of view rather than a financial point of view.

Company, Creative, Financial, Running, View, Views

Years later, I found myself running a network television division and then a movie studio and now an entire entertainment company. But, much of the success I've achieved can be traced to the direct and metaphorical lessons I learned in building those campfires. I can hardly think of an aspect of my life that wasn't positively affected by my camping experience.

Campfires, Lessons, Running, Thinking, Traced, Years

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