Bob Iger Quotes
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If someone comes to you with, 'It's my kid's graduation,' you don't tell them, 'Sorry, you can't go to that.' You just don't do that. You figure out some other way.
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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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We have a unique opportunity as Disney because it really is the only true global entertainment brand.
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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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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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I drive myself to and from work. I love the privacy.
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It's a good time to be in the content business though, the branded content business.
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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 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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I don't get described as necessarily being aggressive. I don't know if 'laid-back' is the word. I think, if anything, what I would want people to say about me is, 'I think he had guts.'
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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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I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.
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Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire.
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The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.
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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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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 don't want to sound too critical, but we're taking a wait-and-see approach on UltraViolet.
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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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People don't like to follow pessimists.
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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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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'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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It's not about how much you make: it's about how good the quality is. You'll be better off as a company making fewer things and concentrating on those and how you bring those to market... in a very less cluttered way, even though the marketplace is more cluttered.
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There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.