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If you want to see the future, watch 8 year olds
Anne Sweeney / Businesswoman
Want
Watches
Years
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I never looked at a title and said, I want that.
Anne Sweeney / Businesswoman
Said
Titles
Want
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Before you can make a difference, you have to believe you can.
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Inspirational
Believe
Differences
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It's not the balanced life we remember, it's the beautiful life.
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Life
Beautiful
Remember
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It’s amazing what you can do when you stop worrying about failing.
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Failing
Torque
Worry
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My theme song is always: "Pay attention to your viewer. Follow them."
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Attention
Pay
Song
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My theme song is always: 'Pay attention to your viewer. Follow them.'
Anne Sweeney / Businesswoman
Pay Attention
Theme
Theme Song
Viewer
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We saw Hulu as an opportunity to broaden our audience for ABC content.
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Abc
Broaden
Hulu
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The more personalized television gets, the less passive the experience will become.
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Passive
Personalized
Television
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Take the job or the project that scares you a little. It's the one with the most to teach you.
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Jobs
Leadership
Scare
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Television has always been something you watch; now, increasingly, it is also something you do.
Anne Sweeney / Businesswoman
Television
Watches
Increasingly
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Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.
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Inspiring
Positive
Success
Strong Women
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The greatest gifts you can give your team: clarity, communication, and pulling people together around a shared mission.
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Communication
People
Team
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I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'
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Careers
Curiosity
Titles
Title
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Piracy is a huge, huge issue for all of these major content companies, and everybody has a different way of addressing it.
Anne Sweeney / Businesswoman
Different
Huge
Issues
Piracy
Way
Addressing
Content
Companies
Different Way
Major
Issue
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Surround yourself with the best people and then get out of their way. Give them a chance to exceed your expectations and they usually will.
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Leadership
Expectations
Giving
People
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I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that they think belong to successful people.
Anne Sweeney / Businesswoman
People
Successful
Successful People
Thinking
Behaviors
Women Age People
Belong
Imitate
Something Else
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I'm naturally curious, and I've always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.
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Jobs
Curiosity
Driven
Excited
Ideas
New Ideas
People
Always People New
Always
Naturally
Always Curiosity People
Been
Gets
Industries
Leads
New Jobs
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A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.
Anne Sweeney / Businesswoman
Jobs
Expecting
Focus
Good Leader
Great Work
Leader
Produce
Tools
Work Good Great
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To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.
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Anything Else
More Than Anything
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I think we all realize the consumer has taken control, and they're not giving it back. So as every new technology comes forward, we have to figure out how to integrate it.
Anne Sweeney / Businesswoman
New Technology
Consumer
Integrate
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The value of the television network is partly tradition, serving as a navigation device and as a brand. Research shows that people do know and understand ABC as a brand, like Disney.
Anne Sweeney / Businesswoman
Navigation
People
Research
Serving
Television
Abc
Device
Disney
Network
Partly
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Today, television is the most powerful medium in the world. Tomorrow it will also be the most personal. There is no one future for television. It will be defined differently for everyone.
Anne Sweeney / Businesswoman
Defined
Most Powerful
Tomorrow
Future Today World
Future Today Tomorrow
Medium
Powerful Medium
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I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.
Anne Sweeney / Businesswoman
Ability
Greater
Important
Motivated
People
Pursuit
Thinking
Power Look People
In The End
Maybe
Themselves
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Our future is only limited by our commitment to keep the momentum going. Now that television has been set free from all constraints - including time, place, and all previous definitions - what comes next?
Anne Sweeney / Businesswoman
Commitment
Constraints
Definitions
Including
Momentum
Television
Previous
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Art has been good for my soul. And it's been good for my brain. I think I'm a better painter now than I was a musician growing up. You struggle to see things and translate an image through your hands to a canvas.
Anne Sweeney / Businesswoman
Art
Canvas
Growing Up
Musician
My Soul
Painter
Struggle
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I am deeply honored that my team is being recognized by H.S.H. Prince Albert II and the Festival de Television de Monte-Carlo for Disney/ABC's role in creating television that inspires and captivates audiences wherever they live.
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Creating
Honored
Inspire
Team
Television
Albert
Audiences
Deeply
Festival
Inspires
Recognized
Wherever
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I am so very honored to be the recipient of MIPCOM's 2011 Personality of the Year. However, the accomplishments that have led to this honor are not mine alone. They are the result of the tireless efforts of so very many talented colleagues.
Anne Sweeney / Businesswoman
Accomplishment
Colleagues
Honor
Honored
Personality
Years
Accomplishments
Talented
Efforts
Led
Recipient
Tireless
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Too many times, adults walk into situations, and people have already put them in a box: 'Oh, you write comedy.' Or, 'You're the development woman.' And it's not just our profession. It's hard to look at someone and say, 'What else is inside?'
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Profession
Walk Look People
Box
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While I was in college, I became a page at ABC. Suddenly I was working for Good Morning America, local news, national news. The page is the lowest rung of the ladder, and it's the also the place where you can ask any question and not feel dumb.
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Morning
America
College
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If you have a great day at work and you've been hit with all these great ideas and there's a lot of excitement on your team, your mind doesn't turn off. For years I've kept a pad of paper and pen by me at night, because things just occur to you.
Anne Sweeney / Businesswoman
Excitement
Great Day
Ideas
Night
Paper
Team
Work Great Mind
Hit
Occur
Pad
Pen
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I remember when cable happened and everyone said broadcast was dead, and then satellite happened and everyone said cable was dead, and then DVDs happened and everyone said everything was over. Nothing was over. I'm very optimistic about the future.
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Optimistic
Dvds
Remember
Remember When
Satellites
Broadcast
Cable
Satellite
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When you are producing for ABC, you are producing for a big tent network. So when you are thinking about your story lines and characters, you are thinking about broad appeal. When you are producing for a niche interest, you are producing for a different audience.
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Lines
Niche
Abc
Appeal
Broad
Network
Producing
Story Lines
Tent
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I believe in having total clarity around our goals. I believe in creating these goals together as a group and making sure they're aligned with Bob Iger's goals for the Walt Disney Co. And more than anything, making sure people understand that they have a responsibility to one another.
Anne Sweeney / Businesswoman
Clarity
Creating
Responsibility
Walt
Aligned
Believe I Believe Together
Disney
Group
More Than Anything
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I think the must-have power qualities for a female or male power leader are really the ability to focus, to work hard, to be extremely goal oriented and to not let the noise and the nonsense interfere with your mission - what you really feel you want to do with your career and your life.
Anne Sweeney / Businesswoman
Careers
Female
Hard Work
Interfere
Noise
Nonsense
Thinking
Life Work Power
Male
Mission
Oriented
Qualities
Work Hard
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The more opportunities people have to experience television on different platforms, the more television they consume overall. So there actually has been a benefit, but the ratings have gone down. But we've seen kind of the horizontal benefit of this. And it remains a great, great promotion engine.
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Opportunity
Different
Horizontal
People
Platforms
Promotion
Remains
Experience Great People
Benefit
Consume
Engine
Overall
Ratings
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I think the greatest thing we give each other is encouragement...knowing that I'm talking to someone in this mentoring relationship who's interested in the big idea here is very, very important to me. I think if it were just about helping me get to the next step, it would be a heck of a lot less interesting.
Anne Sweeney / Businesswoman
Encouragement
Ideas
Talking
Thinking
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'Dancing with the Stars' is a great format for us. It's a format we license from the BBC, so that can't travel for us, but we consider it a great success. 'Desperate Housewives,' on the other hand, a huge success for us internationally. 'Missing' has actually sold to 80 territories before it's even gone on the air.
Anne Sweeney / Businesswoman
Dancing
Dancing With The Stars
Desperate
Format
Great Success
License
Missing
Bbc
Housewives
Internationally
Sold
Territories
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Our company has been very forward-thinking about digital technology and the opportunity that it gives us. As we move into a world where we have more and more devices at our disposal, that really means more and more opportunities for the Walt Disney Co. to reach you: through our entertainment, through all of our divisions.
Anne Sweeney / Businesswoman
Devices
Digital
Digital Technology
Entertainment
Walt
Technology Opportunity World
Disney
Divisions
More And More
Opportunities
Reach
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Pages were always supposed to be off-camera - we were supposed to be invisible. But I had a moment where I saw a kid who was ready to flip himself out of the balcony, so I ran down and grabbed him and put him back in his seat. I remember the stage manager taking me aside and saying, "Can you please never do that again? I know you were saving his life, but we have you in the shot."
Anne Sweeney / Businesswoman
Kids
Down And
Saving
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