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Michael Ovitz

American

December 14, 1946

Businessman

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I'm not one to speak about myself. I like to speak about the people around me.

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I learned my first lesson at the Walt Disney Company about not being able to trust my associates.

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Hollywood is a small, familial place. Everyone does business with everybody else. The same complications occur in investment banking.

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When I get on a plane, I don't want a laid-back pilot. I want a pilot who is a control freak, who is paying attention to every single detail of his job.

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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.

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In student government in high school, I learned how to deal with people, and in college I studied Eastern philosophy. I'm also an avid team-sports fan. I think I just blended them all together and came out with a business management philosophy that combines the Eastern ethic with the Western sport concept, basically.

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