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Ovitz claims CAA never lost a single client during his entire tenure
“In the years I was at CA, we never lost a client, and the reason was if they tired of one person, they'd go to the next, but everyone was up to speed.”
Ovitz: CAA financially supported early executive allies who fell on hard times
“You know, at CA we kept a list of every single executive That helped us in the first three or five years that then had trouble, and we got everyone a job, and if we couldn't get them a job, we made sure they had money. Because they helped us when we had nothin…”
Ovitz: CAA recruited roughly 80% of executives internally or from standout competitors
“Matter of fact, we recruited, I'd say, 80% of our executives like that. We either groom inside or recruited them from the competition because they had our standards and they were at the wrong place in our mind.”
Ovitz: CAA required staff to read a 200-publication multidisciplinary list in 1974
“We had at the agency in 74 a 200 single line list bibliography of monthly magazines and books to look at because, and they weren't in a singular space, and I had at one time, I was a magazine junkie,”
Ovitz: CAA ran out of money and was sued in week three
“We ran out of money the third week we were in business, and we got sued by our former employer, and we didn't even have money to defend ourselves.”
Ovitz: Led 1996 Clinton trade delegation to Beijing over media piracy
“In 96, I led a trade delegation for President Clinton to Beijing. I met with the Premier of China. Jung Zemin and Zhu Rongji, the number two, the head of finance, because they were making videotapes from people holding up video cameras in theaters. And they we…”