Words matter. These are the best Mark Burnett Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they’ve got that great business idea.
The best person to get something done is a busy person.
There are screens at the gas station, there are screens at the shopping mall. And they all need content.
In Botswana in the Kalahari Desert there’s a tented camp called Jack’s Camp, which is like old Africa meets Ralph Lauren. The Oriental rugs, the old leather chairs – you feel like you’ve just jumped out of a Ralph Lauren ad.
The world is changing, and the Internet is about to become the next broadcast network.
We celebrate the Bill Gateses of the world. We’re not mad at Bill Gates.
Whether it is the cavemen in the caves thousands of years ago, Shakespeare plays, television, movies and books, stories and characters take us on a journey. All I do is tell those stories without scripts and without actors.
The way I see it, more people are wired with broadband from 9 to 5 during the day than watch TV at night. So therefore isn’t the real prime time 9 to 5? Playing games at your desk – that’s the new prime time, isn’t it?
‘Content is King,’ and with more screens needing entertaining content now than at any time in history, that statement is truer than ever.
In Europe and Australia, there is something called the Tall Poppy Syndrome: People like to cut the tall poppies. They don’t want you to succeed, and they cut you down – especially people from your own social class.
My kids – even though it’s a family business – they don’t even know what day or time ‘Survivor’ is even on. They just know it’s on TiVo.
Every show on television has a downward trend because there are so many more things to watch. You can only deal with what is the benchmark of a hit series and ‘Survivor’ clearly remains a hit series.
Singing shows are fun. Every viewer has their own opinion. We all know whether we think a voice sounds good or not. There’s a play-along element. All these shows can be supported.
I’m not at all overextended… I’m very, very hands-on.
So many people wanted an adventure. It was really more about finding the cast that I wanted for ‘Expedition Impossible,’ so it had good diversity, and people could really say, ‘Oh, there’s the firefighters, there’s the team of cops, there’s the grandpa’ – so that you can really relate with them.
I very much like Kenya. It’s hard to beat the Masai Mara and the idea of ballooning across it. I have a great time at Lewa. There’s more rhinos than you’ll find anywhere. A great part for the children is you can ride horses with the giraffes and the zebra.
America is the most giving nation on Earth. One of the best ways to feel better is by doing something for somebody else.
I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That’s where my heart lies.
