Anne Sweeney
Anne Sweeney
Anne Marie Sweeneyis an American businesswoman. She was formerly the co-chair of Disney Media, President of the Disney–ABC Television Group, and the President of Disney Channel from 1996 to 2014...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth4 November 1957
CityKingston, NY
CountryUnited States of America
worry failing torque
It’s amazing what you can do when you stop worrying about failing.
leadership jobs scare
Take the job or the project that scares you a little. It's the one with the most to teach you.
issues way different
Piracy is a huge, huge issue for all of these major content companies, and everybody has a different way of addressing it.
kids saving down-and
Pages were always supposed to be off-camera - we were supposed to be invisible. But I had a moment where I saw a kid who was ready to flip himself out of the balcony, so I ran down and grabbed him and put him back in his seat. I remember the stage manager taking me aside and saying, "Can you please never do that again? I know you were saving his life, but we have you in the shot."
hard-work thinking careers
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.
team communication people
The greatest gifts you can give your team: clarity, communication, and pulling people together around a shared mission.
commitment television definitions
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?
opportunity people gone
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.
careers curiosity want
I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'
song attention pay
My theme song is always: 'Pay attention to your viewer. Follow them.'
optimistic dvds remember
I remember when cable happened and everyone said broadcast was dead, and then satellite happened and everyone said cable was dead, and then DVDs happened and everyone said everything was over. Nothing was over. I'm very optimistic about the future.
thinking people important
I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.
years want watches
If you want to see the future, watch 8 year olds
jobs focus leader
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.