Politics & Power Quote by Michael Eisner

The genius of Eisner's line is how aggressively bland it is. "The product we produce" is corporate tautology turned into armor: a way to talk about creativity as if it were toothpaste, while still claiming the glow of cultural influence. It’s the language of a man who ran an entertainment empire and needed to reassure investors, regulators, and employees at once: we’re not gambling on art, we’re executing a repeatable process.

"Consistently successful here in America and around the world" does double duty. It’s a victory lap, but it’s also a preemptive defense against criticism that Disney (and similar companies) exports American taste and flattens local culture. By making global dominance sound like simple market validation, the line quietly sidesteps the power dynamics of distribution, branding, and sheer scale. Success becomes proof of virtue, not just advantage.

Then comes the wink: "Apparently, we are doing something right". Apparently is doing the heavy lifting. It feigns humility while refusing specifics, an executive’s version of modesty that keeps the metric undefined. What is "right"? Storytelling? Synergy? Merchandising? Labor strategy? Intellectual property consolidation? The sentence invites you to fill in the blank with whatever you already believe about the company, which is exactly the point.

In context, it’s a managerial ideology in miniature: if the numbers are up, the method is justified. Cultural impact, creative risk, even ethical controversy get folded into a single scoreboard where profitability and popularity read as a moral verdict.