Robert Iger Quotes

• The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.

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  Tags in Status, Quo, Maintain

• 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.

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  Tags in Best, New, Put

• We like the size of the company today given the environment and have no plans to split it up and make it smaller.

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  Tags in Today, Company, Plans

• We really believe that Walt Disney is a very able company with great depth and a great set of franchises.

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  Tags in Believe, Company

• We’re delighted to be working with Apple to offer fans a new and innovative way to experience our wildly popular shows.

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  Topics in Experience

  Tags in New, Working

• The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.

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  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Heart, Creativity

• Are there challenges? Absolutely. But in aggregate, this is a very strong and valuable company.

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  Tags in Strong, Company, Valuable

• Sometimes I feel like I’m a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire.

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  Tags in Reality, Sometimes, Show

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

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  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Important, Over

• I started off wanting very much to be a newscaster.

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  Tags in Started, Wanting

• I began as a weatherman and I learned very quickly I wasn’t very good at it.

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  Tags in Learned, Began, Quickly

• Keeping it simple for the consumer is incredibly dire.

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  Tags in Simple, Keeping, Consumer

• People still love a good story, and I don’t think that will change.

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  Tags in Change, Story

• For us to grow globally, it’s not enough to just be an exporter. We have to be a creator.

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  Tags in Enough, Grow, Creator

• 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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  Tags in Morning, Matter, Days

• I ride a bike and use aerobic equipment twice a week, and work out with a trainer, lifting weights.

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  Tags in Week, Bike, Twice

• People don’t like to follow pessimists.

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  Tags in Follow, Pessimist

• I drive myself to and from work. I love the privacy.

  Robert Iger

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  Tags in Myself, Drive, Privacy

• 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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  Tags in Through, Holiday, Jazz

• 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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  Tags in Mind, Important, Look

Robert Iger (31)

Birth:	10th February, 1951
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman

About

Robert A. "Bob" Iger is an American businessman and the current chairman and chief executive of The Walt Disney Company.

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