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If it's not growing, it's going to die.
Management is not a science, it is an art.
Nobody has a bigger cult than Warren Buffett.
Diversity is a great force towards creativity.
There's no good idea that can't be improved on.
There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.
Failure is good as long as it does not become a habit.
Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years.
If you're really good, you should express yourself...a lot.
Balanced emotions are crucial to intuitive decision making.
To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.
In every business, in every industry, management does matter.
Creativity can flourish within sensible financial limitations.
A decision will be made before it's too late or soon thereafter.
My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth.
Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.
You can't succeed unless you've got failure, especially creatively.
You either play by the rules, change the rules, or get out, altogether.
Privacy laws are our biggest impediment to us obtaining our objectives.
I gravitate toward the team thing. I'm not a golfer - I much prefer basketball.
Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.
You just have to make sure the model you're working on does not undersell your product.
My best idea was to not accept my wife's negative reaction when I asked her to marry me.
I think when you get inured with the past, you get committed to the past, you stop growing.
Doing stuff that I don't have to talk about because I'm not in a public company is fantastic.
The company should be run from a creative point of view rather than a financial point of view.
I don't think individual achievement in business is the most meaningful way for it to operate.
The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher.
Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.
The only thing that gives [new technology] purpose is the kind of creative content we all produce.
It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.
Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.
A brand is a living entity-and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures.
Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.
It doesn't matter whether it comes in by cable, telephone lines, computor, or satellite. Everyone's going to have to deal with Disney.
I find that, once you get into a position where you can afford a pair of shoes and a decent level of living, success in itself is empty.
21 years as CEO is a long time. I was and probably still am the longest serving CEO in America. Certainly I am in the media industry, bar none.
Over time, the product we produce has been consistently successful here in America and around the world. Apparently, we are doing something right.
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 objective.
User-generated content is not done by professionals. The best user-generated content eventually becomes those people gravitated in the professional world.
If you're soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don't mind kicking sand in your face.
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 complete choice.
The whole business starts with ideas, and we're convinced that ideas come out of an environment of supportive conflict, which is synonymous with appropriate friction.
When I read biographies, I'm only interested in the first few chapters. I'm not interested in when people become successful. I'm interested in what made them successful.
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 everything that we stand for.
A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don't isolate the family. We don't make rides that say, 'Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.'
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 them what they really think.
We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.
I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I've taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea.
There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.