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

Bob Iger

People go to Disney because they know its brand attributes. We believe we have an opportunity to go with our content directly to consumers.
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Believe Opportunity People
I drive myself to and from work. I love the privacy.
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Myself Privacy Work
Steve Jobs was a great friend as well as a trusted advisor. His legacy will extend far beyond the products he created or the businesses he built. It will be the millions of people he inspired, the lives he changed, and the culture he defined.
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Businessmen Jobs Legacy People
I had worked at Disney since they bought the company that I had worked for, ABC in the mid-90s.
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Abc Company Disney Work
People still love a good story, and I don’t think that will change.
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People Stories Thinking
Keeping it simple for the consumer is incredibly dire.
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Consumers Keeping Simple
I ride a bike and use aerobic equipment twice a week, and work out with a trainer, lifting weights.
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Lifting Out Use Weights Work
I get up at 4:30 in the morning, seven days a week, no matter where I am in the world.
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Matter Morning World
And it’s only the beginning of a new era of exceptional Star Wars storytelling; next year we’ll release our first standalone movie based on these characters, followed by Star Wars: Episode VIII in 2017, and we’ll finish this trilogy with Episode IX in 2019.
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Beginning Character Era Stars Storyteller War
Identify what all the issues are & when you find them don’t hide from them.
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Find Identity Issues
Netflix, Amazon, iTunes – whatever platforms emerge – we are looking at as having the same potential that home video had for the movie business.
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Amazon Home Mean Netflix Opportunity
We need secure distribution. If you (telecommunications equipment and software makers) help us, we will make it easier for you to distribute our content.
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Distribute Easier Make Secure Software Telecommunication
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.
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Creative Fantastic Giving People Shows Television
What I’ve really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.
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Important Leadership Optimism Really
I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.
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Fondness Holiday Singer Singers Way
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.
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Eye People Thinking Treat
When I saw the first video iPod, I thought this could have the same impact VHS/home video had on the movie business.
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Business First Home Impact Ipods Movie
The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.
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Creativity Heart Soul
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.
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Consumer Creators Distributor Investment
I’m not in the camp that believes that Netflix is going to take over the world…technology makes it impossible to have a monopoly.
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Believe Netflix Technology

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