David Geffen
David Geffen
David Lawrence Geffen is an American business magnate, producer, film studio executive, and philanthropist. Geffen created or co-created Asylum Records in 1970, Geffen Records in 1980, DGC Records in 1990, and DreamWorks SKG in 1994. His donations to the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and other educational and research donations have widened his fame beyond the entertainment industry...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth21 February 1943
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.
We had hoped to be able to make enough films to be able to rationalize the cost of being our own distributor. Sadly, we were never able to make enough films to make that economically sound.
The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.
Move to California. Malibu is paradise.
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 just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theater, I didn't even know there was a show business.
It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad.
I have no talent except for being able to enjoy and recognize it in others.
Everybody in politics lies.
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.
I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.
The concept known as bal tashchit--'Do no destroy'--has a special significance in Jewish tradition...We are constantly being warned in our faith that the capricious, thoughtless, wasteful destruction of the elements and creatures of the earth is wrong...We should remind ourselves daily of our responsibility to all aspects of creation.
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.