Bob Iger > Quotes

“wherever you are along the path, you'r the same person you've always been.”
― Bob Iger, The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons in Creative Leadership

“I thought there was only one lesson in this story, the obvious one about the importance of taking responsibility when you screw up. That's true, and it's significant. In your work, in your life, you'll be more respected and trusted by the people around you if you honestly own up to your mistakes. It's impossible not to make them; but it is possible to acknowledge them, learn from them, and set an example that it's okay to get things wrong sometimes. What's not okay is to undermine others by lying about something or covering your own ass first.”
― Bob Iger, The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons in Creative Leadership

“You can't let ambition get too far ahead of opportunity.”
― Bob Iger

“J.J. [Abrams] and I had dinner soon after he decided to take on the project. We'd known each other from back in the ABC days - he'd made Alias and Lost for us, among other things -”
― Bob Iger, The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons in Creative Leadership

“I don't think when you are telling stories and attempting to be a good citizen of the world that that's political.”
― Bob Iger