Quotes by Bob Iger

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

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.

You cant allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. Theres a need to respect the past, but its a mistake to revere your past.

Working hard to fulfill a dream or instinct and learning over time it doesnt work, doesnt mean a career is over and a reputation killed. When a reputation is killed, its when failure comes as a result of loss of integrity or judgement... breaking of laws.

Even though I started off being interested in news, and I spent 13 years of my career working in television sports, I always was passionate about television and movies.

If someone comes to you with, Its my kids graduation, you dont tell them, Sorry, you cant go to that. You just dont do that. You figure out some other way.

There is no science in creativity. If you dont give yourself room to fail, you wont innovate.

I wont speak for the entertainment industry. I speak for Disney. Ive seen people in the industry come to work every morning paranoid about what the other person or other company is doing. That means youre spending time and focus on somebody elses business instead of your own.

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

I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.

Honestly, Im interested in politics; Im interested in giving back in some form, performing some sort of civic duty. But Im not exploring a run for governor or senator or anything along those lines. Im focused on running Disney.

When you think about it, medias the intersection of content and technology - its all about storytelling, like photography and the camera.

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