Ovitz Michael Quotes & Sayings

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

The death of Dougal McGregor, however, although traumatic, seemed to free Minerva. Shortly after Voldemort's first defeat, Elphinstone, now white-haired, proposed again during a summertime stroll around the lake in the Hogwarts grounds. This time Minerva accepted. — J.K. Rowling

I'm not good at being static. I have to be climbing a mountain. — Michael Ovitz

I'm not one to speak about myself. I like to speak about the people around me. — Michael Ovitz

A government that spoke of military glory as an aim would betray ignorance of, or contempt for, the spirit of nations and the age. It would be an error by a thousand years. Even if it should initially succeed, it would be interesting to see who in the end would win this odd wager, our own century or the offending government. — Benjamin Constant

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

I'm obsessed with perfection. I want to work. I don't want to stop. I want to take advantage and make myself the best possible me that I can be. — Drake

My whole life has been about risk and reward. — Michael Ovitz

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. — Khalil Gibran

Football is the No. 1 sport in America. — 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

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

I'm terrible at making titles. I never like the titles of my films. — Cary Fukunaga

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

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

Strangely enough, when you get older the things you didn't understand when you were a child start to make sense. "When this happened, I should have done that." "When that happened, I should have said this." those types of things. You start to understand rather than regret. It may be closer to repentance. So it may be that I do want to repent and erase the ignorant self from my childhood. — Natsuki Takaya

The unknown is always interesting. — Michael Ovitz

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence — Jean Baudrillard

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

Sorcha," he whispered, and realized that he had called her so a moment before. Now, that was odd; no wonder she had been surprised. It was her name in the Gaelic, but he never called her by it. He liked the strangeness of her, the Englishness. She was his Claire, his Sassenach. — Diana Gabaldon

If passionate love is the coke of love, companionate love is like having a glass of wine or smoking a few hits of some mild weed. That makes it sound a little better than the uncle thing, right? We all like booze and weed more than we like our relatives, right? — Aziz Ansari

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

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

Jews are non-Israelites and YHWH is the god of the non-Semitic Jews, and was NOT The God of the Semitic Israelites. — Ibrahim Ibrahim

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

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

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

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