Anne Sweeney Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I think we all realize the consumer has taken control, and they're not giving it back. So as every new technology comes forward, we have to figure out how to integrate it.”

“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.”

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

“One of the things that is very important to me is how I feel about my team. And not just what their jobs are but what they mean to one another.”

“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.”

“To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.”

“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.”

“My theme song is always: 'Pay attention to your viewer. Follow them.'”

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