David Geffen Quotes


"I intend to be me. Whatever that is."
- David Geffen
"I believe we're all in denial about the people we love."
- David Geffen
(Related: Love, People, Denial)

"I am truly my mother's son."
- David Geffen
(Related: Mother, Son)

"I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!"
- David Geffen
(Related: Being, Job, Theatre)

"Happy is harder than money. Anybody who thinks money will make you happy hasn't got money."
- David Geffen
(Related: Money, Will)

"Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money."
- David Geffen
(Related: Money, Will)

"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."
- David Geffen
(Related: Business, Life, School)

"HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues."
- David Geffen
(Related: Apathy, Friends, Public)

"It's very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they've made to my life."
- David Geffen
(Related: Life)

"You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else."
- David Geffen
(Related: Idea)

"To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege."
- David Geffen
(Related: Work, Privilege, states, United)

"The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal."
- David Geffen
(Related: Opportunity, Company, Today)

"Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money."
- David Geffen
(Related: Money)

"My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her."
- David Geffen
(Related: Business, Love, Work, Mother)

"It's the perfect definition of a settlement. Both parties didn't get what they wanted."
- David Geffen
"It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad."
- David Geffen
(Related: Music)

"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."
- David Geffen
(Related: Lie, People, Hollywood, Play, Tennis, Want)

"I'm not Sammy Glick. I've never killed anyone. I don't have to. I'm too talented."
- David Geffen
"I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth."
- David Geffen
(Related: Truth, Arrogance)

"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."
- David Geffen
(Related: Money, Life, Truth)

"I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris."
- David Geffen
(Related: Success, Thought)

"Move to California. Malibu is paradise."
- David Geffen
(Related: Paradise)