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I'm a lifetime Green Bay Packers fan.
People don't like to follow pessimists.
I started off wanting very much to be a newscaster.
I drive myself to and from work. I love the privacy.
I'm not a big believer in second-guessing decisions.
Keeping it simple for the consumer is incredibly dire.
The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.
The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.
People still love a good story, and I don't think that will change.
Identify what all the issues are & when you find them don't hide from them.
I began as a weatherman and I learned very quickly I wasn't very good at it.
It's a good time to be in the content business though, the branded content business.
I get up at 4:30 in the morning, seven days a week, no matter where I am in the world.
I just was built with an innate ability to not let fear guide me in how I run my life.
For us to grow globally, it's not enough to just be an exporter. We have to be a creator.
I don't want to sound too critical, but we're taking a wait-and-see approach on UltraViolet.
I had worked at Disney since they bought the company that I had worked for, ABC in the mid-90s.
Are there challenges? Absolutely. But in aggregate, this is a very strong and valuable company.
There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.
People gravitate to what they believe to be popular... Technology is enabling even more of that.
What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.
I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.
I ride a bike and use aerobic equipment twice a week, and work out with a trainer, lifting weights.
We have a unique opportunity as Disney because it really is the only true global entertainment brand.
We really believe that Walt Disney is a very able company with great depth and a great set of franchises.
We like the size of the company today given the environment and have no plans to split it up and make it smaller.
I'm privileged and grateful to lead The Walt Disney Company and our talented, dedicated team at this exciting time.
When I saw the first video iPod, I thought this could have the same impact VHS/home video had on the movie business.
We're delighted to be working with Apple to offer fans a new and innovative way to experience our wildly popular shows.
Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire.
I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.
I'm not in the camp that believes that Netflix is going to take over the world...technology makes it impossible to have a monopoly.
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.
When you think about it, media's the intersection of content and technology - it's all about storytelling, like photography and the camera.
People go to Disney because they know its brand attributes. We believe we have an opportunity to go with our content directly to consumers.
I don't happen to believe, by the way, that immigration policies that single people out because of religion, for instance, are fair and just.
I think it is incredibly important to be open and accessible and treat people fairly and look them in the eye and tell them what is on your mind.
I'm a big believer in investing for the long term, and the decisions you make shouldn't be made if the economy is good or bad at a specific time.
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.
If we give people the ability to buy a lot more because they can store a lot more, for a company that creates TV shows and movies, that's fantastic.
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.
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.
An all-out trade war with China would be damaging to Disney's business and to business in general. It's something I think we have to be very careful about.
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.
It's in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow the consumer - what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go.
It’s in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow the consumer – what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go.
You try things creatively all the time, and while you want every one of them to be great, and you set out to do that, that's not always going to end up being the case.
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.
A lot of people - a lot - have urged me to seek political office. All kinds of different jobs. Everybody has got a different idea for me, except all roads lead through my wife.
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.'