Quotes from Bob Iger

I'm a lifetime Green Bay Packers fan.

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.

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.

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.

People don't like to follow pessimists.

I started off wanting very much to be a newscaster.

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.

I get up at 4:30 in the morning, seven days a week, no matter where I am in the world.

Even though I started off being interested in news, and I spent 13 years of my career working in television sports, I always was passionate about television and movies.

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

Where we are as a nation is due to having an openness to the people of the world. It's incredibly important. I firmly believe that we cannot shut our borders to immigrants. I think a fair and just immigration policy is good for our country and good for our society.

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

You try things creatively all the time, and while you want every one of them to be great, and you set out to do that, that's not always going to end up being the case.

I don't want to sound too critical, but we're taking a wait-and-see approach on UltraViolet.

I'm privileged and grateful to lead The Walt Disney Company and our talented, dedicated team at this exciting time.

I'm not a big believer in second-guessing decisions.

Netflix, Amazon, iTunes - whatever platforms emerge - we are looking at as having the same potential that home video had for the movie business. 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.

We're privileged as citizens of the United States to live in a society where the press can act in an adversarial role in a number of different ways.

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

People go to Disney because they know its brand attributes. We believe we have an opportunity to go with our content directly to consumers.

I've always believed that the best way you combat intellectual property theft is making a product available that is well priced, well timed to market, whether it's a movie product, TV product, music product, even theme-park product.

It's not about how much you make: it's about how good the quality is. You'll be better off as a company making fewer things and concentrating on those and how you bring those to market... in a very less cluttered way, even though the marketplace is more cluttered.

It's a good time to be in the content business though, the branded content business.

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