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Michael Ovitz

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

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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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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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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.

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I believe sometimes I make some mistakes. And I don’t think they are life-threatening mistakes.

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Football is the No. 1 sport in America.

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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.

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My whole life has been about risk and reward.

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I’m not good at being static. I have to be climbing a mountain.

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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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I have never run a public company. I spent my entire life working for a private company.

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