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I learned my first lesson at the Walt Disney Company about not being able to trust my associates. — Michael Ovitz

Gentlemen, I've done many deals in my lifetime and through that process, I've developed a methodology, a way of doing things, a philosophy if you will. Within that philosophy, I have certain beliefs. I believe in artificial deadlines. I believe in playing one against the other. I believe in doing everything and anything short of illegal or immoral to get the damned deal done. — Ben Horowitz

I'm interested in what's new. I'm interested in change. I'm interested in a different game in life. — Michael Ovitz

I've always made my decisions based on two factors: intellectual analysis and my gut. And when they meet, that's a go from me. That's when I see the goal. — Michael Ovitz

The Internet is the greatest thing that ever happened to the entertainment industry. — Michael Ovitz

I believe sometimes I make some mistakes. And I don't think they are life-threatening mistakes. — Michael Ovitz

It's not about money. The money will flow. It's about power and influence. — Michael Ovitz

A lot of drive is innate, self-perpetuated, reinforced energy. As a kid, I could always sell anything I could get my hands on - from newspapers to lemonade to 'TV Guide.' I knew how to make a presentation. — Michael Ovitz

I'm terrified that if they know how much I hate it, they might take it away. — Megan Whalen Turner

I always imagined the walk down the tall, wooden staircase, to be somewhat magical my first date when I was a little girl. Unfortunately, I never imagined my first date to be with someone who despised me, to a dance where I was sure to make a fool of myself, by orders from a Royal Prince who likes me but has been forbidden to talk to me; but I never had much of an imagination. — Rachel Higginson

Hollywood is a small, familial place. Everyone does business with everybody else. The same complications occur in investment banking. — Michael Ovitz

The unknown is always interesting. — Michael Ovitz

Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve others from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel. — Eleanor Brown

When I get on a plane, I don't want a laid-back pilot. I want a pilot who is a control freak, who is paying attention to every single detail of his job. — Michael Ovitz

I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do. — Fabrice Luchini

In student government in high school, I learned how to deal with people, and in college I studied Eastern philosophy. I'm also an avid team-sports fan. I think I just blended them all together and came out with a business management philosophy that combines the Eastern ethic with the Western sport concept, basically. — Michael Ovitz

All of us are probably three people. We're probably the person that we think we are, and we're probably the person that you or somebody else perceives us to be, and ... frankly, we're probably somewhere in the middle. And I think that it's important that there be a balance with respect to how individuals are - you know, are looked at. — Michael Ovitz

The human condition is not perfect. We are not perfect specimens, any of us. We're not robots. — Michael Ovitz

When I was at U.C.L.A., I worked my way through school as a tour guide at Universal Studios, and I came in contact with a lot of people in the agency business. — Michael Ovitz

Then once you've got that dream in mind please dream a million more and not a million quiet dreams, a million dreams that roar! — Dallas Clayton

Magic Johnson was in the seventh year of his Hall of Fame career when thoughts of his basketball afterlife led him to the office of uber-executive Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Hollywood's most powerful agency. — Don Yaeger

When you have heart disease, you start to be tired of everything. It's like getting older. You become more white, and after that, grey. You have no feeling for anything. — Gerard Depardieu

Instinct told me it was dangerous.
I could handle dangerous. Dangerous and me went back a long way. We did lunch when dangerous was in town. — Devon Monk

I must say that in my early years, I was incredibly aggressive. I was working as hard as I could to build a business, to try to dominate a business. And I probably irritated a lot of people. — Michael Ovitz

I have never run a public company. I spent my entire life working for a private company. — Michael Ovitz