Quotes by David Geffen

• Broke is a Hollywood term!
• I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.
• I am truly my mother's 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!
• Happy is harder than money. Anybody who thinks money will make you happy hasn't got money.
• Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.
• 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.
• HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.
• It's very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they've made to my life.
• You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else.
• To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.
• The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.
• Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.
• My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.
• It's the perfect definition of a settlement. Both parties didn't get what they wanted.
• It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad.
• 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.
• I'm not Sammy Glick. I've never killed anyone. I don't have to. I'm too talented.
• I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth.
• 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 thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris.
• Move to California. Malibu is paradise.