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Take the job or the project that scares you a little. It's the one with the most to teach you.
Anne Sweeney
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Anne Sweeney
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: November 4
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Anne M. Sweeney
Anne Marie Sweeney
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I am so very honored to be the recipient of MIPCOM's 2011 Personality of the Year. However, the accomplishments that have led to this honor are not mine alone. They are the result of the tireless efforts of so very many talented colleagues.
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I never looked at a title and said, I want that.
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Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.
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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.
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The more opportunities people have to experience television on different platforms, the more television they consume overall. So there actually has been a benefit, but the ratings have gone down. But we've seen kind of the horizontal benefit of this. And it remains a great, great promotion engine.
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It’s amazing what you can do when you stop worrying about failing.
Anne Sweeney
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.
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I am deeply honored that my team is being recognized by H.S.H. Prince Albert II and the Festival de Television de Monte-Carlo for Disney/ABC's role in creating television that inspires and captivates audiences wherever they live.
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Piracy is a huge, huge issue for all of these major content companies, and everybody has a different way of addressing it.
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While I was in college, I became a page at ABC. Suddenly I was working for Good Morning America, local news, national news. The page is the lowest rung of the ladder, and it's the also the place where you can ask any question and not feel dumb.
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My theme song is always: Pay attention to your viewer. Follow them.
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I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.
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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.
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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.
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The greatest gifts you can give your team: clarity, communication, and pulling people together around a shared mission.
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Television has always been something you watch now, increasingly, it is also something you do.
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I think the greatest thing we give each other is encouragement...knowing that I'm talking to someone in this mentoring relationship who's interested in the big idea here is very, very important to me. I think if it were just about helping me get to the next step, it would be a heck of a lot less interesting.
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Before you can make a difference, you have to believe you can.
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I remember when cable happened and everyone said broadcast was dead, and then satellite happened and everyone said cable was dead, and then DVDs happened and everyone said everything was over. Nothing was over. I'm very optimistic about the future.
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The more personalized television gets, the less passive the experience will become.
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