David Geffen Quotes

United States, Businessman
February 21, 1943

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. As philanthropist he has donated to the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and other educational and research institutes.

Also known as Producer, Philanthropist

It's the perfect definition of a settlement. Both parties didn't get what they wanted.

David Geffen
- Perfect
Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.

David Geffen
- Money

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

David Geffen
- Life
Move to California. Malibu is paradise.

David Geffen
- California
- Paradise
Happy is harder than money. Anybody who thinks money will make you happy hasn't got money.

David Geffen
- Money
- Happy
Broke is a Hollywood term!

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

David Geffen
- Truth
I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

David Geffen

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
- Business
- Job
- Theatre
Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.

David Geffen
- Money
- Happy
I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris.

David Geffen
- Success
The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.

David Geffen
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
- Life
- Money
- Truth
I am truly my mother's son.

David Geffen
- Mother
- Son

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

David Geffen
- Work
- Live
My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.

David Geffen
- Work
- Business
- Mother
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
- Life
- School
- Business
It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad.

David Geffen
- Good
- Music
- Bad
I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.

David Geffen
- People
- Believe
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
- People
- Player
- Tennis

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

David Geffen
- Friends
- Growing
- Lost
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