Sui Generis 20 Selected Quotes By - Anne Sweeney

Sui Generis 20 Selected Quotes By - Anne Sweeneye

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.

— Anne Sweeney

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.

— Anne Sweeney

Our future is only limited by our commitment to keep the momentum going. Now that television has been set free from all constraints - including time, place, and all previous definitions - what comes next?

— Anne Sweeney

To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.

— Anne Sweeney

I am so very honored to be the recipient of MIPCOM's 2011 Personality of the Year. However, the accomplishments that have led to this honor are not mine alone. They are the result of the tireless efforts of so very many talented colleagues.

— Anne Sweeney

One of the things that is very important to me is how I feel about my team. And not just what their jobs are but what they mean to one another.

— Anne Sweeney

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

— Anne Sweeney

I believe in having total clarity around our goals. I believe in creating these goals together as a group and making sure they're aligned with Bob Iger's goals for the Walt Disney Co. And more than anything, making sure people understand that they have a responsibility to one another.

— Anne Sweeney

If you have a great day at work and you've been hit with all these great ideas and there's a lot of excitement on your team, your mind doesn't turn off. For years I've kept a pad of paper and pen by me at night, because things just occur to you.

— Anne Sweeney

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.

— Anne Sweeney

When you are producing for ABC, you are producing for a big tent network. So when you are thinking about your story lines and characters, you are thinking about broad appeal. When you are producing for a niche interest, you are producing for a different audience.

— Anne Sweeney

Art has been good for my soul. And it's been good for my brain. I think I'm a better painter now than I was a musician growing up. You struggle to see things and translate an image through your hands to a canvas.

— Anne Sweeney

I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'

— Anne Sweeney

Too many times, adults walk into situations, and people have already put them in a box: 'Oh, you write comedy.' Or, 'You're the development woman.' And it's not just our profession. It's hard to look at someone and say, 'What else is inside?'

— Anne Sweeney

I think the must-have power qualities for a female or male power leader are really the ability to focus, to work hard, to be extremely goal oriented and to not let the noise and the nonsense interfere with your mission - what you really feel you want to do with your career and your life.

— Anne Sweeney

My theme song is always: 'Pay attention to your viewer. Follow them.'

— Anne Sweeney

The more personalized television gets, the less passive the experience will become.

— Anne Sweeney

The more opportunities people have to experience television on different platforms, the more television they consume overall. So there actually has been a benefit, but the ratings have gone down. But we've seen kind of the horizontal benefit of this. And it remains a great, great promotion engine.

— Anne Sweeney

Our company has been very forward-thinking about digital technology and the opportunity that it gives us. As we move into a world where we have more and more devices at our disposal, that really means more and more opportunities for the Walt Disney Co. to reach you: through our entertainment, through all of our divisions.

— Anne Sweeney

We saw Hulu as an opportunity to broaden our audience for ABC content.

— Anne Sweeney

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