David Geffen

Is there anybody more ambitious than Hillary Clinton?

We all die unhealed

I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theater, I didn’t even know there was a show business.

Do any of us really have a clue? We don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow. Or what word will come up in a conversation that will change our lives. You can be in the shower and scrubbing under your arm and find a lump that wasn’t there yesterday. I’m doing things here and now. Life is evolving. Every day life evolves.

It’s terribly unfair that we should have to suffer like this.

I’ve always thought that each person invented himself… for whatever reason, through whatever circumstance, through whatever he is gone through… that we are each a figment of our own imagination… And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.

To be successful in the world of entrepreneurs, especially in the early stages, a person must learn to fail, correct, learn, apply what was learned, and fail again.

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

In the end, you’re measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

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

If I had to select one quality and one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick persistence I and determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, “Here comes number seventy one”.

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

You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is work or play.

Losing is tough.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

The rich. You know why they’re so odd? Because they can afford to be.

People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

People who are fools don’t get successful, and they don’t get to be successful if they are worried about their popularity.

I’ve become very successful over the years. I think I own among the greatest properties in the world.