We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.
It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.
A brand is a living entity-and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures.
Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.
There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.
The company should be run from a creative point of view rather than a financial point of view.
It doesn't matter whether it comes in by cable, telephone lines, computor, or satellite. Everyone's going to have to deal with Disney.
Management is not a science, it is an art.
Failure is good as long as it does not become a habit.
Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.
If you're really good, you should express yourself...a lot.
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.
To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.
Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.
You either play by the rules, change the rules, or get out, altogether.
Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.
Years later, I found myself running a network television division and then a movie studio and now an entire entertainment company. But, much of the success I've achieved can be traced to the direct and metaphorical lessons I learned in building those campfires. I can hardly think of an aspect of my life that wasn't positively affected by my camping experience.
We all know that the Disney brand is our most valuable asset. It is the sum total of our seventy-five years in business, of our reputation, of everything that we stand for.
My best idea was to not accept my wife's negative reaction when I asked her to marry me.
If it's not growing, it's going to die.
The whole business starts with ideas, and we're convinced that ideas come out of an environment of supportive conflict, which is synonymous with appropriate friction.
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.
A decision will be made before it's too late or soon thereafter.
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.
When I read biographies, I'm only interested in the first few chapters. I'm not interested in when people become successful. I'm interested in what made them successful.
