Bob Iger
Bob Iger
Robert Allen "Bob" Iger /ˈaɪɡər/is an American businessman and the chairman and chief executive officerof The Walt Disney Company. Before Disney, Iger served as the president of ABC Television from 1994 to 1995 and the president and chief operating officerof Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. from 1995 until Disney's acquisition of the company in 1996. He was named president and COO of Disney in 2000, and later succeeded Michael Eisner as CEO in 2005, after a successful effort by Roy E. Disney...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth10 February 1951
CountryUnited States of America
Working together to address piracy we can help to ensure that the same content Verizon is distributing legally under this deal will not be downloaded illegally.
I began as a weatherman and I learned very quickly I wasn't very good at it.
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.
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.
I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.
I ride a bike and use aerobic equipment twice a week, and work out with a trainer, lifting weights.
I started off wanting very much to be a newscaster.
I get up at 4:30 in the morning, seven days a week, no matter where I am in the world.
Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire.
We're delighted to be working with Apple to offer fans a new and innovative way to experience our wildly popular shows.
Identify what all the issues are & when you find them don't hide from them.
When I saw the first video iPod, I thought this could have the same impact VHS/home video had on the movie business.
And it's only the beginning of a new era of exceptional Star Wars storytelling; next year we'll release our first standalone movie based on these characters, followed by Star Wars: Episode VIII in 2017, and we'll finish this trilogy with Episode IX in 2019.
What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.