6 Quotes & Sayings By Michael Davidow

Michael Davidow is the President and CEO of the Davidow Foundation, a non-profit educational institution that perpetuates the philosophy of leadership, self-motivation and individual achievement first expressed by author and motivational speaker Napoleon Hill. Michael Davidow received his BA from Yale University and his JD from Harvard Law School. He served as a law clerk to Judge James L. Buckley on the U.S Read more

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Prior to establishing the Davidow Foundation, Michael spent six years as an attorney with Fried, Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP in New York City. Before entering private practice, he was a partner at Paul, Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP in San Francisco where he represented clients such as Apple Computer and Sony Corporation of America in high tech start-up companies and mergers and acquisitions.

Michael is a frequent lecturer on business and legal issues and has been named one of the "Top 25 Most Powerful People" by Inc.. Mr. Davidow is an active member of the board of directors of Prostate Cancer Canada, the global leader in the fight against prostate cancer; Operation Smile International, an organization that provides free reconstructive surgery for children born with cleft lip and palate; and The Chrysalis Foundation, a national organization dedicated to providing support services to severely abused women and their children.

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Love to love, connection to connection, you carve your complicated path through life; leave one love behind, and the next one always seems out of reach. What can buoy you up in the meantime. What can underlie love, but love. Michael Davidow
And when you fall, because you always do fall. When...
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And when you fall, because you always do fall. When you swim for the beach to catch your board. There’s peace to be found in the shoreward pull with every passing wave. Michael Davidow
To hold power in this world is to know things...
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To hold power in this world is to know things that others do not want to know. Michael Davidow
They were free to be what they wanted to be,...
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They were free to be what they wanted to be, and what they wanted to be was nothing. Michael Davidow
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People believe in something, they themselves don’t know what it is, it isn’t a good thing, but it stands for a good thing. Because all belief stands for something that’s better. All belief comes from wanting to believe. People aren’t up to the real thing, though. So they substitute. And that harms them. It’s the problem of problems. I like it a lot. Michael Davidow