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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
We really believe that Walt Disney is a very able company with great depth and a great set of franchises.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Environment
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- Nov 07, 2020
We like the size of the company today given the environment and have no plans to split it up and make it smaller.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're delighted to be working with Apple to offer fans a new and innovative way to experience our wildly popular shows.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't like to follow pessimists.
- Nov 07, 2020
I started off wanting very much to be a newscaster.
- Dire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Keeping it simple for the consumer is incredibly dire.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
For us to grow globally, it's not enough to just be an exporter. We have to be a creator.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get up at 4:30 in the morning, seven days a week, no matter where I am in the world.
- Nov 07, 2020
I ride a bike and use aerobic equipment twice a week, and work out with a trainer, lifting weights.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I drive myself to and from work. I love the privacy.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.
- Bought
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had worked at Disney since they bought the company that I had worked for, ABC in the mid-90s.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm privileged and grateful to lead The Walt Disney Company and our talented, dedicated team at this exciting time.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a good time to be in the content business though, the branded content business.
- Critical
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to sound too critical, but we're taking a wait-and-see approach on UltraViolet.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a unique opportunity as Disney because it really is the only true global entertainment brand.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
People go to Disney because they know its brand attributes. We believe we have an opportunity to go with our content directly to consumers.
- Capital Investment
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a lifetime Green Bay Packers fan.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just was built with an innate ability to not let fear guide me in how I run my life.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Computer-Generated
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
The attributes we're focused on for Mickey are exactly the ones Walt had in mind in the first place. The original Mickey was impish and irreverent. Walt sanitized him because when Mickey got so popular, there was a fear that his behavior was influencing kids.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never judge myself according to the expectations of others. I judge myself by the jobs I've been given over the years and by the extent to which I succeeded in those jobs.
- Certain Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Depending
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've certainly had a number of failures along the way, depending on my own instincts and creativity, some fairly celebrated, at least during their time.
- Better Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have tremendous brand experience. What I do a lot for Disney is manage the great brands of this company, whether it's Disney, ESPN, ABC, Pixar, Marvel, 'Star Wars.' And I'm very engaged in technology and its impact on the consumer, either what experience you deliver for them or how to market and sell to them.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a big believer in second-guessing decisions.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
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
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Adversarial
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're privileged as citizens of the United States to live in a society where the press can act in an adversarial role in a number of different ways.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020