If you make something good, eventually the audience will be there, eventually there will be something on the Internet that is a cultural phenomenon that's not available anywhere else, that's not available on television broadcasts, that's not on cable, it's only on some Web site. And the world will find it. And when that happens, it will be what the 'kiss' was to the theatrical movie business, 5,000 years ago or whenever it was.
Balanced emotions are crucial to intuitive decision making.
Diversity is a great force towards creativity.
Creativity can flourish within sensible financial limitations.
In every business, in every industry, management does matter.
I always went into an area that was in last place, with a philosophy, 'You can't fall off the floor.' And I was lucky, was at the right time and the right place, with the right ideas, and each one of these areas became number one.
Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.
I gravitate toward the team thing. I'm not a golfer - I much prefer basketball.
We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.
Nobody has a bigger cult than Warren Buffett.
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.
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.
I don't think individual achievement in business is the most meaningful way for it to operate.
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.
User-generated content is not done by professionals. The best user-generated content eventually becomes those people gravitated in the professional world.
The only thing that gives [new technology] purpose is the kind of creative content we all produce.
I think when you get inured with the past, you get committed to the past, you stop growing.
You can't succeed unless you've got failure, especially creatively.
I remember the first time we stood in this spot. We were on the deck of a boat in the middle of what was then Penny's Bay, envisioning what could be, what would be, what will be. Six years later, through our dream partnership with Hong Kong government, the creative dream is now a reality. Hong Kong Disneyland stands before us as a living symbol of the creativity and imagination that are the heart and soul of Disney.
To this day, I fondly recall the challenges of building a fire, pitching a tent, climbing a New England mountain, canoeing on a lake. Camp songs still resonate inside me. Competition exists at Keewaydin, of course, but nobody fails summer camp, a nice respite from winters of fortune and misfortune at school.
Doing stuff that I don't have to talk about because I'm not in a public company is fantastic.
Television is very much like the motion picture; you need high-end product that will first go on broadcast or cable and eventually on the Internet, and then the lifespan of this content being distributed worldwide.
I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I've taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea.
Privacy laws are our biggest impediment to us obtaining our objectives.
My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth.
