Top 40 Bob Iger Quotes

I just was built with an innate ability to not let fear guide me in how I run my life.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sometimes I feel like I’m a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire.

It’s not about how much you make: it’s about how good the quality is. You’ll be better off as a company making fewer things and concentrating on those and how you bring those to market… in a very less cluttered way, even though the marketplace is more cluttered.

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’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.

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.

People gravitate to what they believe to be popular… Technology is enabling even more of that.

The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.

People go to Disney because they know its brand attributes. We believe we have an opportunity to go with our content directly to consumers.

We’re delighted to be working with Apple to offer fans a new and innovative way to experience our wildly popular shows.

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.

I’m privileged and grateful to lead The Walt Disney Company and our talented, dedicated team at this exciting time.

I drive myself to and from work. I love the privacy.

The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.

We like the size of the company today given the environment and have no plans to split it up and make it smaller.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Keeping it simple for the consumer is incredibly dire.

When you run the Walt Disney Co., you gain a fair amount of experience in customer-facing businesses, particularly in site-based entertainment. I have a lot of experience in marketing, a lot of experience in selling, particularly tickets to site-based entertainment or movies or whatever.

For us to grow globally, it’s not enough to just be an exporter. We have to be a creator.

I get up at 4:30 in the morning, seven days a week, no matter where I am in the world.

We really believe that Walt Disney is a very able company with great depth and a great set of franchises.

I’m not a big believer in second-guessing decisions.

I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.

I don’t want to sound too critical, but we’re taking a wait-and-see approach on UltraViolet.

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.

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.

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.

It’s a good time to be in the content business though, the branded content business.

What I’ve really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.

I’m a lifetime Green Bay Packers fan.