Anne Sweeney Quotes, Thoughts and image

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

If you want to see the future, watch 8 year olds

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

Television has always been something you watch; now, increasingly, it is also something you do.

I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that they think belong to successful people.

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

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.

I never looked at a title and said, I want that.

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

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

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.