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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.

Bob Iger

Identify what all the issues are & when you find them don’t hide from them.
BOB IGER

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.
BOB IGER

Amazon Home Mean Netflix Opportunity
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.
BOB IGER

Businessmen Jobs Legacy People
The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.
BOB IGER

Creativity Heart Soul
I ride a bike and use aerobic equipment twice a week, and work out with a trainer, lifting weights.
BOB IGER

Lifting Out Use Weights Work
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.
BOB IGER

Consumer Creators Distributor Investment
I get up at 4:30 in the morning, seven days a week, no matter where I am in the world.
BOB IGER

Matter Morning World
We need secure distribution. If you (telecommunications equipment and software makers) help us, we will make it easier for you to distribute our content.
BOB IGER

Distribute Easier Make Secure Software Telecommunication
When I saw the first video iPod, I thought this could have the same impact VHS/home video had on the movie business.
BOB IGER

Business First Home Impact Ipods Movie
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.
BOB IGER

Eye People Thinking Treat
I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.
BOB IGER

Fondness Holiday Singer Singers Way
What I’ve really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.
BOB IGER

Important Leadership Optimism Really
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.
BOB IGER

Believe Netflix Technology
Keeping it simple for the consumer is incredibly dire.
BOB IGER

Consumers Keeping Simple
I had worked at Disney since they bought the company that I had worked for, ABC in the mid-90s.
BOB IGER

Abc Company Disney Work
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.
BOB IGER

Beginning Character Era Stars Storyteller War

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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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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