Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.
Content has always driven the business. Now it’s no longer the queen to a king of distribution; it is the king, king, king, because the consumer has complete choice.
I’m not sure I was a typical head of a company. Most people that run big companies come out of sales and they come out of marketing and they’re quite serious and they have MBA’s from very good schools and things like that. I’m an accidental CEO, thank the Disney Company.
Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.
A decision will be made before it’s too late or soon thereafter.
The company should be run from a creative point of view rather than a financial point of view.
There’s a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There’s some middle ground.
I find that, once you get into a position where you can afford a pair of shoes and a decent level of living, success in itself is empty.
Many people you think are individual achievers in fact have either a strong spousal partner over many years or a business partner who’s either in the background, not given enough publicity or less egocentric.
Failure is good as long as it does not become a habit.
Doing stuff that I don’t have to talk about because I’m not in a public company is fantastic.
The odds of being successful are the same for every group that is educated in America. It’s just that the group that is not wealthy is 95 percent of the population. So if there are 100 successful people in a room, probably 95 out of 100 came from more modest means.
My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth.
21 years as CEO is a long time. I was and probably still am the longest serving CEO in America. Certainly I am in the media industry, bar none.
It doesn’t matter whether it comes in by cable, telephone lines, computor, or satellite. Everyone’s going to have to deal with Disney.
I find that no matter how long a meeting goes on, the best ideas always come during the final five minutes, when people drop their guard and I ask them what they really think.
Creativity can flourish within sensible financial limitations.
You can’t succeed unless you’ve got failure, especially creatively.
You just have to make sure the model you’re working on does not undersell your product.
Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be background noise.