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Bob Iger
American
Businessman
Born:
Feb 10
,
1951
Good
People
Think
Time
Work
You
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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.
Bob Iger
You
Respect
Mistake
Innovation
Past
Way
Allow
Revere
Tradition
Get
Your
Need
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.
Bob Iger
Success
Death
Arrogance
Cause
Behavior
Other
Way
Kinds
More
Instance
Behave
Achieving
Ingredients
Breed
Certain
Certain Way
Companies
Necessarily
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.
Bob Iger
Work
Time
Morning
You
Entertainment
Business
People
Speak
Focus
Somebody
Seen
Own
Every
Other
Else
Spending
Spending Time
Entertainment Industry
Paranoid
About
Instead
Come
Industry
Doing
Person
Disney
Means
Your
Company
I can stand here today, look you in the face, and say I'm proud of the efforts of 'ABC News.' I respect 'ABC News.' And I believe they work very hard to present news in an extremely fair way.
Bob Iger
Work
Today
News
You
Respect
Face
Believe
Way
Extremely
Say
ABC
Fair
Look
Proud
Very
Efforts
Stand
Hard
Present
Here
People gravitate to what they believe to be popular... Technology is enabling even more of that.
Bob Iger
Technology
People
Believe
More
Enabling
Popular
Even
Gravitate
There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.
Bob Iger
You
Science
Yourself
Creativity
Innovate
Give
Fail
Room
I just was built with an innate ability to not let fear guide me in how I run my life.
Bob Iger
Life
Me
Fear
My Life
Guide
Run
Ability
Built
How
Just
Innate
We like the size of the company today given the environment and have no plans to split it up and make it smaller.
Bob Iger
Today
Given
Split
Environment
Smaller
Like
Make
Up
Size
Plans
Company
I'm a lifetime Green Bay Packers fan.
Bob Iger
Bay
Lifetime
Green
Green Bay
Fan
Packers
When you think about it, media's the intersection of content and technology - it's all about storytelling, like photography and the camera.
Bob Iger
You
Technology
Photography
Think
About
Like
Content
Camera
Storytelling
Media
Intersection
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.
Bob Iger
Myself
Judge
Others
Those
Jobs
Given
Never
Over
Been
Years
According
Expectations
Which
Succeeded
Extent
Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire.
Bob Iger
Reality
Sometimes
Millionaire
Apprentice
Would
Would-Be
Feel
Like
Contestant
Survivor
Reality Show
Show
People still love a good story, and I don't think that will change.
Bob Iger
Love
Good
Change
People
Will
Think
Good Story
Still
Story
I began as a weatherman and I learned very quickly I wasn't very good at it.
Bob Iger
Good
Learned
Began
Very
Quickly
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.
Bob Iger
Politics
Giving
Duty
Honestly
Back
Those
Focused
Run
Running
Civic
Some
Giving Back
Performing
Along
Sort
Lines
Governor
Senator
Form
Anything
Interested
Disney
Exploring
We're delighted to be working with Apple to offer fans a new and innovative way to experience our wildly popular shows.
Bob Iger
Experience
Fans
Innovative
Our
Way
Wildly
Delighted
New
Offer
Working
Popular
Shows
Apple
I get up at 4:30 in the morning, seven days a week, no matter where I am in the world.
Bob Iger
Morning
World
Matter
Seven
Week
Days
Am
Up
Get
Where
It's a good time to be in the content business though, the branded content business.
Bob Iger
Time
Good
Business
Good Time
Though
Content
Branded
I don't want to sound too critical, but we're taking a wait-and-see approach on UltraViolet.
Bob Iger
Too
Approach
Critical
Taking
Sound
Want
People go to Disney because they know its brand attributes. We believe we have an opportunity to go with our content directly to consumers.
Bob Iger
People
Opportunity
Believe
Our
Directly
Consumers
Know
Attributes
Content
Because
Go
Brand
Disney
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.
Bob Iger
Me
People
Political
Wife
Everybody
Jobs
Kinds
Seek
Except
Through
Lead
Roads
Idea
Got
Lot
Office
Different
Urged
I have this lust for the so-called South Seas. I would like to explore every corner of the Pacific. You know the song: 'To everything turn, turn, turn, there is a season.' It's just time.
Bob Iger
Time
You
Song
Every
Lust
Corner
Everything
Would
Like
Know
South
Just
So-Called
Pacific
Turn
Explore
Seas
Season
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.
Bob Iger
You
Sorry
Other
Way
Kid
Out
Tell
Some
Someone
Go
Just
Graduation
Them
Figure
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.
Bob Iger
Fear
Behavior
Mind
First
Kids
Focused
Exactly
Had
Him
First Place
Attributes
Because
Got
His
Mickey
Walt
Irreverent
Influencing
Place
Original
Popular
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.
Bob Iger
Time
Creativity
Own
Way
Some
My Own
Had
Failures
Instincts
Along
Fairly
Least
Celebrated
Depending
Certainly
Number
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.
Bob Iger
Great
You
Technology
Experience
Tremendous
Market
ABC
Impact
Marvel
Consumer
Deliver
How
Lot
Sell
Very
Brand
Brands
Manage
ESPN
Pixar
Whether
Either
Them
Disney
Engaged
Wars
Company
Star
Star Wars
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