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
David Geffen quotes about
Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.
I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth.
My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.
I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris.
I'd rather kill myself than work in the music industry today.
You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else.
Your life isn't made up of people who aren't in it.
I’ve always thought that each person invented himself… that we are each a figment of our own imagination. And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.
In Los Angeles, they don't want you to fail, they want you to die.
Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling.
Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.
Though we had agreed on terms, GE reneged on that deal.
They've been trying to make a deal with us from the very beginning and came to us with a price that was acceptable to us, although Steven had many concerns about it. And when they tried to change the price at the end, we decided not to go forward.
So The Eagles had to find another drummer.