Bob Iger
Are we blasphemous in saying that 2-D is largely a thing of the past, and computer-generated animation is the present and future? It's all about creating a better experience for the viewer - and that includes 3-D.Collection: Experience
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.Collection: Movies
Working hard to fulfill a dream or instinct and learning over time it doesn't work, doesn't mean a career is over and a reputation killed. When a reputation is killed, it's when failure comes as a result of loss of integrity or judgement... breaking of laws.Collection: Failure
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.Collection: Religion
I get up at 4:30 in the morning, seven days a week, no matter where I am in the world.Collection: Morning
What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.Collection: Leadership
Where we are as a nation is due to having an openness to the people of the world. It's incredibly important. I firmly believe that we cannot shut our borders to immigrants. I think a fair and just immigration policy is good for our country and good for our society.Collection: Society
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.Collection: Death
I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.Collection: Leadership
I'm committed to increasing long-term value for shareholders and am confident we will continue to do so through the successful execution of our core strategic priorities: the creation of high quality, branded content and experiences, the use of technology, and creating growth in numerous and exciting international markets.Collection: Technology
There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.Collection: Science
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.Collection: Respect
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.Collection: Graduation
The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.
The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.
No one wants to follow a pessimist... You can be skeptical, you can be realistic, but you can't be cynical. If your boss is Eeyore, do you want to work with someone like that? Oh, bother.
When you think about it, media's the intersection of content and technology - it's all about storytelling, like photography and the camera.
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.
Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire.
I ride a bike and use aerobic equipment twice a week, and work out with a trainer, lifting weights.
People still love a good story, and I don't think that will change.
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.
People don't like to follow pessimists.
I'm privileged and grateful to lead The Walt Disney Company and our talented, dedicated team at this exciting time.
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 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.
Are there challenges? Absolutely. But in aggregate, this is a very strong and valuable company.
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.
We're delighted to be working with Apple to offer fans a new and innovative way to experience our wildly popular shows.
I started off wanting very much to be a newscaster.
I began as a weatherman and I learned very quickly I wasn't very good at it.
Keeping it simple for the consumer is incredibly dire.
For us to grow globally, it's not enough to just be an exporter. We have to be a creator.
I drive myself to and from work. I love the privacy.
I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.
I had worked at Disney since they bought the company that I had worked for, ABC in the mid-90s.
It's a good time to be in the content business though, the branded content business.
I don't want to sound too critical, but we're taking a wait-and-see approach on UltraViolet.
We have a unique opportunity as Disney because it really is the only true global entertainment brand.
People go to Disney because they know its brand attributes. We believe we have an opportunity to go with our content directly to consumers.
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.
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.
Honestly, I'm interested in politics; I'm interested in giving back in some form, performing some sort of civic duty. But I'm not exploring a run for governor or senator or anything along those lines. I'm focused on running Disney.
I'm a lifetime Green Bay Packers fan.
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.
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.
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.'
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.
I just was built with an innate ability to not let fear guide me in how I run my life.