Will Eisner
Will Eisner
William Erwin "Will" Eisnerwas an American cartoonist, writer, and entrepreneur. He was one of the earliest cartoonists to work in the American comic book industry, and his series The Spiritwas noted for its experiments in content and form. In 1978, he popularized the term "graphic novel" with the publication of his book A Contract with God. He was an early contributor to formal comics studies with his book Comics and Sequential Art. The Eisner Award was named in his honor,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth6 March 1917
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.
Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.
You either play by the rules, change the rules, or get out, altogether.
We all know that the Disney brand is our most valuable asset. It is the sum total of our seventy-five years in business, of our reputation, of everything that we stand for.
Management is not a science, it is an art.
Years later, I found myself running a network television division and then a movie studio and now an entire entertainment company. But, much of the success I've achieved can be traced to the direct and metaphorical lessons I learned in building those campfires. I can hardly think of an aspect of my life that wasn't positively affected by my camping experience.
Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.
User-generated content is not done by professionals. The best user-generated content eventually becomes those people gravitated in the professional world.
To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.
A brand is a living entity-and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures.
We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.
It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.
If I had told you a year ago that a single innovative quiz show would be a catalyst to bring ABC back to dominance, you would probably thought I was sprinkling a little too much pixie dust,
And just in the nick of time, ... Next week, I couldn't take credit for it.