"Part: 7 Listen to Michael Davis's In Search Of Heroes Interview" by Ralph Zuranski
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Ralph Zuranski: Do you readily forgive those who upset, offend and oppose you?
Michael Davis: Ralph, to be perfectly frank, I’ve got a real hard time forgiving people who do stuff out of spite. I have a real hard time forgiving people who do stuff because they simply don’t like you.
There is a very, very famous artist who works in the comic book community who has called me a fraud because he thinks that if you’re going to work in comics you’ve got to draw comics for 20 years and do all the rest of this stuff to get your feet wet. You have to come up through the grind stone. Well, I didn’t do that. I create business plans and get it to people who make the decisions. I sidestepped all of that stuff.
Quite frankly, corporate America is not stupid. They do background checks and all of this stuff. A fraud by definition is somebody who can’t do but pretends to do what it is that they say to get you to buy into it so that you can give them money and then they abscond with the money. A fraud doesn’t do the job.
I pretty much do the job. That’s what I do. I get a deal. I do the job. I service the deal. I create this stuff.
It’s a little hard for me to forgive this guy because he is jealous of my success. Eventually I will but I’ve got to be honest, people who don’t like you because of your personality, I understand that. It’s human nature. But don’t tell other people that this is your opinion.
He made the mistake of telling one of my best friends that he thought I was a fraud. My best friend is like, “Hey, I’m his best friend. Don’t talk that way about him to me.” Most people understand that my over the top personality is because I’m just a real knucklehead. But he is really, really, really adamant and upset.
You don’t become president of a major corporation because you can’t do the job. Maybe one day I’ll forgive him but right now he’s on my hit list, figuratively speaking. (Laughter) Now people who oppose me? He hasn’t really done anything to oppose me because he’s not at a level where anything he says is important. He’s not sitting with people who make those decisions. He’s not sitting with the decision makers.
People that oppose me I don’t even think about. If you take time out of your day to try to figure out how to stop Michael Davis and Michael Davis is not even thinking about you? This is my philosophy about celebrities. You’ve got all of these TV shows on the air, talking about Paris Hilton and talking about Tom Cruise and all of this nonsense.
Somebody asked me as I was coming out of McDonald’s how I felt about Tom Cruise’s baby. They were interviewing people for a show. “How do you feel about the fact that Tom Cruise’s baby hasn’t been seen?” I said, “When you ask Tom Cruise how he feels about Michael Davis, I’ll comment on Tom Cruise. Other than that, what do I care?” (laughter)
I spend no time thinking about people who don’t affect me in a positive way. Lastly, if you do something to me which causes me harm but you had no intentions of doing that and if it’s a mistake, if you apologize, I will forgive you in a heartbeat if you own up to what it is that you have done. Quite frankly, Ralph Zuranski, you and I both know that there are people out there who do stupid things that affect other people.
Ralph: Boy, that’s true.
Michael Davis: They don’t think about it. They do it. Those people I can forgive because that’s not out of spite.
That’s not out of malicious intention. That’s simply because they made a mistake. I can forgive mistakes all day long.
Ralph: That’s true.
Michael Davis: Again, I’ve got to apologize for being so long winded.