David Geffen Quotations

HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.

I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.

The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.

I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.

I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth.

Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.

It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad.

To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.

In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.

Happy is harder than money. Anybody who thinks money will make you happy hasn't got money.

I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I`ve known in my life. That`s just the truth.

My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.

You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else.

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

It's very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they've made to my life.

It's the perfect definition of a settlement. Both parties didn't get what they wanted.

When they tried to change the price we decided not to go forward.

People, when they get to that level, they always think they can do it better, ... I think I could do a lot better with the L.A. Times too.

He had been conflicted about it from the beginning. When they changed the price, he decided not to do it.

having his own company and doing things exactly the way he'd want and not consulting with others.

We had hoped to be able to make enough films to be able to rationalize the cost of being our own distributor. Sadly, we were never able to make enough films to make that economically sound.

We had come to terms with them on price, and there were a million things that needed to be settled.

Though we had agreed on terms, GE reneged on that deal.

Move to California. Malibu is paradise.

Broke is a Hollywood term!

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`m not Sammy Glick. I`ve never killed anyone. I don`t have to. I`m too talented.

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

Everybody in politics lies.

I am truly my mother's son.

The concept known as bal tashchit--'Do no destroy'--has a special significance in Jewish tradition...We are constantly being warned in our faith that the capricious, thoughtless, wasteful destruction of the elements and creatures of the earth is wrong...We should remind ourselves daily of our responsibility to all aspects of creation.

Most of the artists were trying to make a living, trying to get laid, trying to figure out who they were. They weren't trying to change the world. That's what other people put on them. I knew all those people. I knew them all, intimately and well. Bob Dylan. I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.

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,

I'd rather kill myself than work in the music industry today.

Your life isn't made up of people who aren't in it.

I’ve always thought that each person invented himself… that we are each a figment of our own imagination. And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.

In Los Angeles, they don't want you to fail, they want you to die.

Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling.

So The Eagles had to find another drummer.

DreamWorks is going on. We are going to continue to make movies, the same number of movies as we made in past. They will be DreamWorks movies, with the same logo as before. Nothing will change.

They've been trying to make a deal with us from the very beginning and came to us with a price that was acceptable to us, although Steven had many concerns about it. And when they tried to change the price at the end, we decided not to go forward.