Bob Iger Quotes
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You can't allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There's a need to respect the past, but it's a mistake to revere your past.
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Working hard to fulfill a dream or instinct and learning over time it doesn't work, doesn't mean a career is over and a reputation killed. When a reputation is killed, it's when failure comes as a result of loss of integrity or judgement... breaking of laws.
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Success can breed all kinds of other behavior and cause companies to behave a certain way that isn't necessarily the ingredients for achieving more success. For instance, with success comes arrogance, and that's typically the death of success.
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It's not that I'm a daredevil. But I'm just generally not a fearful person. I don't conduct my life worrying about what could happen, what may happen.
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We have a unique opportunity as Disney because it really is the only true global entertainment brand.
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We really believe that Walt Disney is a very able company with great depth and a great set of franchises.
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I have this lust for the so-called South Seas. I would like to explore every corner of the Pacific. You know the song: 'To everything turn, turn, turn, there is a season.' It's just time.
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When you think about it, media's the intersection of content and technology - it's all about storytelling, like photography and the camera.
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I can stand here today, look you in the face, and say I'm proud of the efforts of 'ABC News.' I respect 'ABC News.' And I believe they work very hard to present news in an extremely fair way.
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I drive myself to and from work. I love the privacy.
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We're delighted to be working with Apple to offer fans a new and innovative way to experience our wildly popular shows.
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It's a good time to be in the content business though, the branded content business.
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I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.
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The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.
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I've always believed that the best way you combat intellectual property theft is making a product available that is well priced, well timed to market, whether it's a movie product, TV product, music product, even theme-park product.
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People go to Disney because they know its brand attributes. We believe we have an opportunity to go with our content directly to consumers.
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I have tremendous brand experience. What I do a lot for Disney is manage the great brands of this company, whether it's Disney, ESPN, ABC, Pixar, Marvel, 'Star Wars.' And I'm very engaged in technology and its impact on the consumer, either what experience you deliver for them or how to market and sell to them.
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I never judge myself according to the expectations of others. I judge myself by the jobs I've been given over the years and by the extent to which I succeeded in those jobs.
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I'm privileged and grateful to lead The Walt Disney Company and our talented, dedicated team at this exciting time.
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I don't want to sound too critical, but we're taking a wait-and-see approach on UltraViolet.
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We're privileged as citizens of the United States to live in a society where the press can act in an adversarial role in a number of different ways.
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Are there challenges? Absolutely. But in aggregate, this is a very strong and valuable company.
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I won't speak for the entertainment industry. I speak for Disney. I've seen people in the industry come to work every morning paranoid about what the other person or other company is doing. That means you're spending time and focus on somebody else's business instead of your own.
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There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.