Quotes

For me, inventing video games was just one successful thing I had done among many others.

My goal in coming to General Motors was to help restore profitability, build a strong market position and position this iconic company for success. We are clearly on that path.

I find people to be people everywhere. Everyone wants the same thing - be successful.

It's not about being happy, it's about being successful.

To work for the team and for the success of the team. That is more important than one ego.

I don't think you can predict success, but you get a feeling if something's going to be good or bad.

The height of success is when you break your business, that is what I say! Just when you think things are really, really going well, that's the time to change.

I know it's not enjoying my success to do this, but when I see too many Polo shirts, I say to myself, 'That's the end of that.'

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

Virginia is my home, and I know what it takes to ensure our prosperity - that's why I'll approach economic growth by utilizing the success of our agricultural sector.

Beware of being blinded by your own success.

If you put out 20 films, you hope that a number are successful. It's like human reproduction versus frog reproduction. Frogs produce thousands and hope a few succeed. Humans don't produce many babies but put a lot of energy into them, which is kind of where we are. They still don't always succeed, but you try a lot harder.

Look at the computer industry. I've watched a lot of companies come and go, some that were right at the pinnacle of their success.

The problem is some of our riskier films just don't make as much money. But if you only make films that will just be commercially successful, then you can also sink yourself as a studio.

I know that with most companies that have a lot of success, it tends to throw you off, and you can become more conservative. One of our questions is, How do we keep from being pulled into conservatism because we're afraid of not being successful again?

After Pixar's 2006 merger with the Walt Disney Company, its CEO, Bob Iger, asked me, chief creative officer John Lasseter, and other Pixar senior managers to help him revive Disney Animation Studios. The success of our efforts prompted me to share my thinking on how to build a sustainable creative organization.

We have a whole industry which is gigantic: games. Games is very successful. It's its own art form, though, and it's not the same as a linear narrative.

When companies are successful or not successful, they almost immediately jump to the wrong conclusions about how they got there or why they got there.

It doesn't even matter how successful a movie like 'Up' is: you'll never sell a lot of toy walkers. But that's the way we spread out the risk.

Part of being the successful Pixar is that we will take risks on teams and ideas, and some of them won't work out. We only lose from this if we don't respond to the failures. If we respond, and we think it through and figure out how to move ahead, then we're learning from it. That's what Pixar is.

With certain ideas, you can predict commercial success. So with a 'Toy Story 3' or a 'Cars 2,' you know the idea is more likely to have financial success. But if you go down that path too far, you become creatively bankrupt because you're just trying to repeat yourself.

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

People have been calling me names and setting me back my whole life. And with every fight it's just given me more fuel to my fire and in doing so I've become a success.