David Geffen

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.

I have no talent except for being able to enjoy and recognize it in others.

I didn’t really have any idea of what Hollywood was except that it was a place where the made movies.

It’s not a very big thing to say, ‘I made a mistake’ on the war, and typical of Hillary Clinton that she can’t.

This is between us! You know this is the best thing for the company.

Asking me to come work here is the dumbest idea you ever had. It has been a waste of a year.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

America is one of the few places in the world where a poorperson can still be obese.

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

I do not believe that material accumulation is the whole of success, and on the other hand I do not believe that true success ever excludes a sufficient possession of wealth-but wealth as a means, not as an end.

In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it.

The secret of life is to validate your existence.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

You can do anything, but not everything.

The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.

Never turn your back on enthusiasm.

If the people really set their minds on anything it is impossible to prevent their getting what they want.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.