Like any crown jewel, I and my partners at Madison Dearborn will miss our many years of ownership where we grew a highly profitable business through strategic licensing partnerships, global expansion and digital transformation, we're proud of what the Topps team has accomplished.

Michael Eisner

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.

Michael Eisner

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It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.

Michael Eisner

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A brand is a living entity-and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures.

Michael Eisner

small-gestures entity consciousness

There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.

Michael Eisner

innovation growth ideas

To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.

Michael Eisner

another-way mediocrity way

It doesn't matter whether it comes in by cable, telephone lines, computor, or satellite. Everyone's going to have to deal with Disney.

Michael Eisner

one-line lines matter

Years later, I found myself running

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running years thinking

You either play by the rules, change the rules, or get out, altogether.

Michael Eisner

baseball play

Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.

Michael Eisner

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The whole business starts with ideas, and we're convinced that ideas come out of an environment of supportive conflict, which is synonymous with appropriate friction.

Michael Eisner

supportive conflict ideas

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 television years

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

queens choices kings

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

mba running school

We all know that the Disney brand is our most valuable asset. It is the sum total of our seventy-five years in business, of our reputation, of everything that we stand for.

Michael Eisner

reputation assets years

Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.

Michael Eisner

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Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.

Michael Eisner

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Management is not a science, it is an art.

Michael Eisner

management art

Failure is good as long as it does not become a habit.

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I always went into an area that was in last place, with a philosophy, 'You can't fall off the floor.' And I was lucky, was at the right time and the right place, with the right ideas, and each one of these areas became number one.

Michael Eisner

positive philosophy fall

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.

Michael Eisner

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