David Geffen Quotes

Move to California. Malibu is paradise.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Broke is a Hollywood term!

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.

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

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

I am truly my mother's son.

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

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.

Everybody in politics lies.

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