[T]here's a difference between confident leadership and empty-headed delusion or cheerleading. And this is a difference that many CEOs miss.

When television came in, everybody thought that was the end of the movie business, which was not and is not.

It's all about who your team is and who your people are.

Arrogance follows distribution strength.

People have been predicting the death of television for 20 years now, and so far it's been entirely wrong. But it does seem viewership habits are starting to change.

Digital advertising is now larger than TV.

Almost any show that has reviewers behind it, Rotten Tomatoes behind it, will find a way to survive.

My mission is to figure out the journalistic model for the digital medium, finding out how we get the right stories readers want, at the right time and wherever they want to read them.

In the new world of digital, there are no must-read publications any more.

The tech folks have seen WiFi as the way to untether. And what better reason to untether than entertainment content? So there's nobody better positioned than the in-home Wi-Fi purveyor.

You have to have a business model you believe in and like.

Sometimes I wished I could cut away old memories and let the wind take them. If a sharp knife could pare away the weakness of those days, I would slice until nothing but the hard lessons remained.

Condi Rice talks tough but she cannot be tough herself.

One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.

You should've gone to China, you know, 'cause I hear they give away babies like free iPods. You know, they pretty much just put them in those t-shirt guns and shoot them out at sporting events.

Be unrelenting. If you don't believe, then who will?

A man's fortune is frequently decided by his first address. If pleasing, others at once conclude he has merit; but if ungraceful, they decide against him.

The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.

I'd rather have a second-best decision diligently pursued than a first-best decision lackadaisically pursued.

Those who are clever, who have a brain, never understand anything.

Fine artists deal with finery, but I deal with painful material.