Bob Iger Quotes
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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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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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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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I ride a bike and use aerobic equipment twice a week, and work out with a trainer, lifting weights.
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I had worked at Disney since they bought the company that I had worked for, ABC in the mid-90s.
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Even though I started off being interested in news, and I spent 13 years of my career working in television sports, I always was passionate about television and movies.
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I'm not a big believer in second-guessing decisions.
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I started off wanting very much to be a newscaster.
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I just was built with an innate ability to not let fear guide me in how I run my life.
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I began as a weatherman and I learned very quickly I wasn't very good at it.
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Netflix, Amazon, iTunes - whatever platforms emerge - we are looking at as having the same potential that home video had for the movie business. Which means there are entirely new opportunities to monetize our capital investment in content and do so in ways that work for distributors, for consumers and for creators.
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I've certainly had a number of failures along the way, depending on my own instincts and creativity, some fairly celebrated, at least during their time.
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People gravitate to what they believe to be popular... Technology is enabling even more of that.
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Keeping it simple for the consumer is incredibly dire.