David Geffen

I was sleeping on a couch in my brothers apartment, and one day this guy walked over and said ‘How would you like to be in a movie?’ And I said ‘Yeah!’ I was an extra in ‘Explosive Generation’.

We all die unhealed

I comfortable with everything – say whatever you want.

The epiphany for me at William Morris was realizing, ‘They bullshit on the phone! I can bullshit on the phone too!’

I see my role as a baby doctor helping people deliver their babies. I felt the same way in the music industry.

The bullsh*t is more interesting than the truth.

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them.

A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it adds up to real money.

Part of the beauty of me is that I’m very rich

If you owe the bank $100 that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem.

Hobbies cost money but interests are free

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

I’m rich beyond my wildest dreams.

I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way.

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the FOUNDING of a bank?

You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.