62 Bob Iger Quotes

Bob Iger has been well known as the chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Company.

Bob went to Oceanside High School. Later he got his degree in Television and Radio from Ithaca College.

Bob made his career debut hosting the reality show, 'Campus Probe'. Initially he started working with Ithaca and later joined the ABC in 1974. Bob Iger authorized many shows including Twin Peaks, America's Funniest Home Videos and Cop Rock.

During 1993-1994 Bob Iger served as the senior vice president and executive vice president of ABC.

(Most popular Bob Iger quotes here at Kidadl.)

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

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

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

"Digital piracy needs to be addressed. Without content protection, investment in content can't be supported. We need secure distribution. If you (telecommunications equipment and software makers) help us, we will make it easier for you to distribute our content."

"I learned from them that genuine decency and professional competitiveness weren’t mutually exclusive. In fact, true integrity, a sense of knowing who you are and being guided by your own clear sense of right and wrong is a kind of secret weapon."

"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."

"It’s not always good for one person to have too much power for too long. Even when a CEO is working productively and effectively, it’s important for a company to have change at the top."

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"I'm a lifetime Green Bay Packers fan."

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

"I just was built with an innate ability to not let fear guide me in how I run my life."

"These are the ten principles that strikes me as necessary to True Leadership: Optimism, Courage, Focus, Decisiveness, Curiosity, Fairness, Thoughtfulness, Authenticity, The Relentless Pursuit of Perfection, and Integrity."

"The people you lead need to feel confident in your ability to focus on what matters, and not to operate from a place of defensiveness and self-preservation."

"I don’t happen to believe, by the way, that immigration policies that single people out because of religion, for instance, are fair and just."

"I’m a big believer in investing for the long term, and the decisions you make shouldn’t be made if the economy is good or bad at a specific time."

"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."

"People gravitate to what they believe to be popular… Technology is enabling even more of that."

"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."

"When you think about it, media’s the intersection of content and technology – it’s all about storytelling, like photography and the camera."

"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."

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

"It’s not that I’m a daredevil. But I’m just generally not a fearful person. I don’t conduct my life worrying about what could happen, what may happen."

"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."

"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."

"I don't get described as necessarily being aggressive. I don't know if 'laid-back' is the word. I think, if anything, what I would want people to say about me is, 'I think he had guts'."

Bob Iger served as the director of the startup, Perfect Day, since October 2020 and in March 2022 he partnered with Genies, Inc.

"One of the most important qualities of a good leader is optimism, a pragmatic enthusiasm for what can be achieved."

- 'The Ride Of A Lifetime'.

"If you approach and engage people with respect and empathy, the seemingly impossible can become real."

- 'The Ride Of A Lifetime'.

"If leaders don’t articulate their priorities clearly, then the people around them don’t know what their own priorities should be. Time and energy and capital get wasted."

- 'The Ride Of A Lifetime'.

"Managing your own time and respecting others’ time is one of the most vital things to do as a manager."

- 'The Ride Of A Lifetime'.

"Chronic indecision is not only inefficient and counterproductive, but it is deeply corrosive to morale."

- 'The Ride Of A Lifetime'.

"Empathy is a prerequisite to the sound management of creativity, and respect is critical."

- 'The Ride Of A Lifetime'.

"You have to hear out other people’s problems and help find solutions. It’s all part of being a great manager."

- 'The Ride Of A Lifetime'.

"True authority and true leadership come from knowing who you are and not pretending to be anything else."

- 'The Ride Of A Lifetime'.

"People don't like to follow pessimists."

"Identify what all the issues are & when you find them don't hide from them."

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

"Keeping it simple for the consumer is incredibly dire."

"I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately."

"At its essence, good leadership isn’t about being indispensable; it’s about helping others be prepared to possibly step into your shoes."

Bob served as the board chairman and later executive chairman of Disney. Susan Arnold replaced his position on December 31, 2021.

"Ask the questions you need to ask, admit without apology what you don’t understand, and do the work to learn what you need to learn as quickly as you can."

- 'The Ride Of A Lifetime'.

"And I tend to approach bad news as a problem that can be worked through and solved, something I have control over rather than something happening to me."

- 'The Ride Of A Lifetime'.

"If something doesn't feel right to you, then it's probably not right for you."

- 'The Ride Of A Lifetime'.

"Don’t start negatively, and don’t start small. People will often focus on little details as a way of masking a lack of any clear, coherent, big thoughts. If you start petty, you seem petty."

- 'The Ride Of A Lifetime'.

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

"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."

"You can do a lot for the morale of the people around you (and therefore the people around them) just by taking the guesswork out of their day-to-day life."

"Optimism sets a different machine in motion."

"People sometimes shy away from taking big swings because they assess the odds and build a case against trying something before they even take the first step."

Bob Iger used his 15-year of true authority to expand Disney's presence in international markets and the market capitalization went from $48 billion to a whopping $257 billion.

"Don't be in the business of playing it safe. Be in the business of creating possibilities of greatness."

- 'The Ride Of A Lifetime'.

"If you're in the business of making something, be in the business of making something great."

- 'The Ride Of A Lifetime'.

"If you don't innovate, You die."

- 'The Ride Of A Lifetime'.

"The path to innovation begins with curiosity."

- 'The Ride Of A Lifetime'.

"There is no science in creativity. If you don’t give yourself room to fail, you won’t innovate."

"If we give people the ability to buy a lot more because they can store a lot more, for a company that creates TV shows and movies, that's fantastic."

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

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

"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."