The value of the television network is partly tradition, serving as a navigation device and as a brand. Research shows that people do know and understand ABC as a brand, like Disney.

Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.

Surround yourself with the best people and then get out of their way. Give them a chance to exceed your expectations and they usually will.

It’s amazing what you can do when you stop worrying about failing.

Take the job or the project that scares you a little. It's the one with the most to teach you.

A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.

Before you can make a difference, you have to believe you can.

I'm naturally curious, and I've always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.

It's not the balanced life we remember, it's the beautiful life.

Piracy is a huge, huge issue for all of these major content companies, and everybody has a different way of addressing it.

The greatest gifts you can give your team: clarity, communication, and pulling people together around a shared mission.

My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.

There is no playing safe with me any longer. I only take huge risks. I know this means I can lose big time, but so long as there is a chance that I will win big time, I will take it

People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it's important to keep my private life private and my public persona more into music, you know?

I love sporting events and popcorn and pizza and being outside, like at a baseball or football game. I love amusement parks, going to ride roller coasters.

All your life you've paid attention to your experiences, but never to yourself.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

My dad taught me at a very young age that I should work harder than everyone else: Be the first one in and the last one out.

Let the poor man mind his tongue

When you walk up five flights of stairs at four in the morning, there's definitely a hooker involved.

Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.