Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.
If you're a wounded company, the other companies that have been around for a hundred years will smell it, and they will take advantage of you in a heartbeat. It takes a long time to get back in fighting form.
My biggest dream for this company is to restore it - to bring Time Warner back to the position that I think it once had and, even better than that, to make it the greatest company in the media and entertainment world.
If you're thinking of acquiring a company and want to keep it a secret, tell everyone in the company; let them all in on the truth. Say, 'Listen, if this gets out, we'll probably lose the deal, so we're all in this together.'
Look, don't congratulate us when we buy a company, congratulate us when we sell it. Because any fool can overpay and buy a company, as long as money will last to buy it.
It is very similar to companies like Google and other internet companies. When you go and search on Google you don't pay for that. But sometimes you click on an advert and Google makes money on that.
The hardware manufacturers, game designers, cable companies and computer companies and, in fact, film studios are going to ensure that this thing marches on. They know that they are going to make an enormous amount of money from it.
I definitely think what drives technology companies is the people; because in a technology company it's always about what are you going to do next.
The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies.
You don't have to fear your own company being perceived as human. You want it. People don't trust companies; they trust people.
It’s impossible for a company to get what it wants most if managers have to make a choice between their own values and company priorities.
What managers want most from companies they stop themselves from getting. What companies want most from managers they stop them from giving.
But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.
Never confuse truth and the latest public opinion poll.
I can go out in public without being recognized. If I want to be recognized in public, it will happen.
If you're going to use the public resources, you need the public benefit.
I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York.
I have had a career in public service.
But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person.
There is already huge public interest in stage musicals.
My plans were to practice law and then possibly go into public service.
