30 Quotes by Michael Ovitz

Until the day I die, I'll never be able to understand how I spent 25 years with that man and his family, and within 60 days of taking this position, he decides I'm a number of things,

When I was at U.C.L.A., I worked my way through school as a tour guide at Universal Studios, and I came in contact with a lot of people in the agency business.

He did walk behind me, ... But it wasn't a shovel he was carrying. It was a knife.

It is important to recognize when something is not working. I hope that my decision to leave will eliminate an unnecessary distraction for a great company.

My whole life has been about risk and reward.

I think I just made the biggest mistake of my career.

I've always made my decisions based on two factors: intellectual analysis and my gut. And when they meet, that's a go from me. That's when I see the goal.

That package was way too lucrative for the services performed

All of us are probably three people. We're probably the person that we think we are, and we're probably the person that you or somebody else perceives us to be, and... frankly, we're probably somewhere in the middle. And I think that it's important that there be a balance with respect to how individuals are - you know, are looked at.