Latest Michael Eisner Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

  Michael Eisner

  Running, School, Mba

  "Michael Eisner: Interview transcript". Interview with Kai Ryssdal, www.marketplace.org.

• I think when you get inured with the past, you get committed to the past, you stop growing.

  Michael Eisner

  Past, Thinking, Growing

  "On the web, content is king". Interview with Kai Ryssdal, www.marketplace.org. August 13, 2009.

• Television is very much like the motion picture; you need high-end product that will first go on broadcast or cable and eventually on the Internet, and then the lifespan of this content being distributed worldwide.

  Michael Eisner

  Needs, Goes On, Television

  "On the web, content is king". Interview with Kai Ryssdal, www.marketplace.org. August 13, 2009.

• If you make something good, eventually the audience will be there, eventually there will be something on the Internet that is a cultural phenomenon that's not available anywhere else, that's not available on television broadcasts, that's not on cable, it's only on some Web site. And the world will find it. And when that happens, it will be what the 'kiss' was to the theatrical movie business, 5,000 years ago or whenever it was.

  Michael Eisner

  Kissing, Years, Television

  "On the web, content is king". Interview by Kai Ryssdal, www.marketplace.org. August 13, 2009.

• User-generated content is not done by professionals. The best user-generated content eventually becomes those people gravitated in the professional world.

  Michael Eisner

  People, Done, World

  "On the web, content is king". Interview with Kai Ryssdal, www.marketplace.org. August 13, 2009.

• 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.

  Michael Eisner

  Kings, Queens, Choices

  "On the web, content is king". Interview by Kai Ryssdal, www.marketplace.org. August 13, 2009.