Michael Eisner
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"Michael Dammann Eisner" is an American businessman. He was the chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Company from 1984 until 2005.

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There has been (talk on Wall Street) that major media companies are out of favor. I have seen this chicken-little behavior before, ... I have worked in the industry for four decades. At least once a decade they fall out of favor, but each time they emerge stronger than ever. This is for cyclical economic reasons.

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

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

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

What I'm pretty sure is, it is not going to be a No. 1 bestseller for 26 weeks, ... And I'm also pretty sure it's not a disaster. So it's somewhere in the middle.

We've had a bright year, ... We are seeing improvement across key financial measures, but we are not where we want to be yet.

Thanks to his deep understanding of the company and its founders, talking to Card was the next-best thing to talking to Walt himself.

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

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