Success Quote by Marvin Davis

It lands like a throwaway line, but it’s really a map of power: why leave when the world you want already comes to you? Coming from Marvin Davis - an oil-and-real-estate billionaire who owned the Beverly Hills Hotel and briefly owned 20th Century Fox - the statement reads less like homespun contentment and more like a doctrine of self-contained empire. Los Angeles isn’t just “big”; it’s expandable, porous, endlessly re-zoned. For someone who profits off land and attention, staying put is a strategy, not a limitation.

The intent is partly boosterish, the kind of casual civic pride that fits a city built on selling itself. Yet the subtext sharpens: LA as a lifestyle bubble where distance is measured in traffic, not continents. “No need” implies that travel is optional once you’ve curated the right radius of beaches, studios, boardrooms, and gated hills. It’s the logic of a metropolis that functions like a private resort for the well-positioned.

Context matters because LA has long pitched itself as the final stop: climate as amenity, entertainment as export, reinvention as local sport. In the late 20th century, when Davis’s influence peaked, the city’s sprawl and wealth made it plausible to treat geography as inventory. The line captures a particular Californian confidence - seductive, insular, and faintly complacent - where “big enough for us” quietly asks who “us” gets to be.