We’ve sourced some of the most interesting and thought-provoking Bob Iger Quotes. Each of the following quotes is overflowing with creativity, and knowledge.
Working hard to fulfill a dream or instinct and learning over time it doesn’t work, doesn’t mean a career is over and a reputation killed. When a reputation is killed, it’s when failure comes as a result of loss of integrity or judgement… breaking of laws.
People gravitate to what they believe to be popular… Technology is enabling even more of that.
What I’ve really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.
We like the size of the company today given the environment and have no plans to split it up and make it smaller.
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.
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.
People still love a good story, and I don’t think that will change.
I don’t get described as necessarily being aggressive. I don’t know if ‘laid-back’ is the word. I think, if anything, what I would want people to say about me is, ‘I think he had guts.’
I’m privileged and grateful to lead The Walt Disney Company and our talented, dedicated team at this exciting time.
Keeping it simple for the consumer is incredibly dire.
It’s not that I’m a daredevil. But I’m just generally not a fearful person. I don’t conduct my life worrying about what could happen, what may happen.
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.
It’s a good time to be in the content business though, the branded content business.
I drive myself to and from work. I love the privacy.
It’s in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow the consumer – what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go.
I don’t want to sound too critical, but we’re taking a wait-and-see approach on UltraViolet.
I’m committed to increasing long-term value for shareholders and am confident we will continue to do so through the successful execution of our core strategic priorities: the creation of high quality, branded content and experiences, the use of technology, and creating growth in numerous and exciting international markets.
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’m a lifetime Green Bay Packers fan.
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.
For us to grow globally, it’s not enough to just be an exporter. We have to be a creator.
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.
A lot of people – a lot – have urged me to seek political office. All kinds of different jobs. Everybody has got a different idea for me, except all roads lead through my wife.
The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.
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.
People don’t like to follow pessimists.
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 won’t speak for the entertainment industry. I speak for Disney. I’ve seen people in the industry come to work every morning paranoid about what the other person or other company is doing. That means you’re spending time and focus on somebody else’s business instead of your own.
