Will Eisner Quotes

Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be background noise.

My best idea was to not accept my wife's negative reaction when I asked her to marry me.

I don't think individual achievement in business is the most meaningful way for it to operate.

You can't succeed unless you've got failure, especially creatively.

A good journalistic organisation upholds four values: inform, reflect, crusade, connect.

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

Balanced emotions are crucial to intuitive decision making.

In every business, in every industry, management does matter.

There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.

If it's not growing, it's going to die.

Creativity can flourish within sensible financial limitations.

I gravitate toward the team thing. I'm not a golfer - I much prefer basketball.

We are not an isolated insulated community anymore

My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth.

Privacy laws are our biggest impediment to us obtaining our objectives.

I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I've taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea.

Doing stuff that I don't have to talk about because I'm not in a public company is fantastic.

I find that no matter how long a meeting goes on, the best ideas always come during the final five minutes, when people drop their guard and I ask them what they really think.

21 years as CEO is a long time. I was and probably still am the longest serving CEO in America. Certainly I am in the media industry, bar none.

You just have to make sure the model you're working on does not undersell your product.

The company should be run from a creative point of view rather than a financial point of view.

Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years.

If you're really good, you should express yourself...a lot.

Nobody has a bigger cult than Warren Buffett.

I find that, once you get into a position where you can afford a pair of shoes and a decent level of living, success in itself is empty.

When I read biographies, I'm only interested in the first few chapters. I'm not interested in when people become successful. I'm interested in what made them successful.

The only thing that gives [new technology] purpose is the kind of creative content we all produce.

I think when you get inured with the past, you get committed to the past, you stop growing.

If you're soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don't mind kicking sand in your face.

Failure is good as long as it doesn’t become a habit.

Art is literacy of the heart.