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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.
Anne Sweeney
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Anne Sweeney
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: November 4
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Kingston
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Anne M. Sweeney
Anne Marie Sweeney
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A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.
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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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Take the job or the project that scares you a little. It's the one with the most to teach you.
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I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'
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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.
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Before you can make a difference, you have to believe you can.
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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 think the must-have power qualities for a female or male power leader are really the ability to focus, to work hard, to be extremely goal oriented and to not let the noise and the nonsense interfere with your mission - what you really feel you want to do with your career and your life.
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If you want to see the future, watch 8 year olds
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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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The greatest gifts you can give your team: clarity, communication, and pulling people together around a shared mission.
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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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Television has always been something you watch now, increasingly, it is also something you do.
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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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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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My theme song is always: Pay attention to your viewer. Follow them.
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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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It’s amazing what you can do when you stop worrying about failing.
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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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Our future is only limited by our commitment to keep the momentum going. Now that television has been set free from all constraints - including time, place, and all previous definitions - what comes next?
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