Occupation: Businessman Birth: March 7, 1942
There's no good idea that cannot be improved on..
You either play by the rules, change the rules, or get out, altogether..
Management is not a science, it is an art..
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 object….
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….
A decision will be made before it's too late or soon thereafter..
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 th….
If you make something good, eventually the audience will be there, eventually there will be something on the Internet that is a cultural phenomenon t….
Years later, I found myself running a network television division and then a movie studio and now an entire entertainment company. But, much of th….
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 ….
Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original..
It doesn't matter whether it comes in by cable, telephone lines, computor, or satellite. Everyone's going to have to deal with Disney..
The whole business starts with ideas, and we're convinced that ideas come out of an environment of supportive conflict, which is synonymous with appr….
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 everyt….
A brand is a living entity-and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures..
Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success..
To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity..
The company should be run from a creative point of view rather than a financial point of view..
Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities..
If you're really good, you should express yourself...a lot..
Failure is good as long as it does not become a habit..