David Geffen

I’m not looking to be a personal manager.

[On Laura Nyro] Anything she wanted, I wanted to get for her.

There has always been a tremendous obsession with television and movie stars, and with the people involved with the business.

My greatest fear is getting bored.

In the end, you’re just a renter anyway. You only own these things for as long as you live. After that, who knows? If I live until I’m 80, I’ll have 30 more years of collecting. If the collection is big enough, I’ll build a museum. And if not, I’ll leave it to a museum.

I don’t agree that the best giving is anonymous. We should be examples to our friends and communities. I should be an example to young, gay kids. And it’s not like people are really anonymous anyway — you remember that episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm? In the end, everybody knows who ‘anonymous’ is.

I thought I’d be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris. It was just inconceivable to me I couldn’t win it all.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

I measure success by how many people love me.

Whenever I hear it can’t be done, I know I am close to success.

There’s always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.

There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.

If you want to double your success rate, you need to double your failure rate.

I was determined to succeed in what I loved to do. I wasn’t going to let my disability stand in my way.

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

I think I was born with the drive for success because I have a certain gene.

Success isn’t about how much money you make. It’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.