The odds of being successful are the same for every group that is educated in America. It's just that the group that is not wealthy is 95 percent of the population. So if there are 100 successful people in a room, probably 95 out of 100 came from more modest means.

I'm not sure I was a typical head of a company. Most people that run big companies come out of sales and they come out of marketing and they're quite serious and they have MBA's from very good schools and things like that. I'm an accidental CEO, thank the Disney Company.

If you make something good, eventually the audience will be there, eventually there will be something on the Internet that is a cultural phenomenon that's not available anywhere else, that's not available on television broadcasts, that's not on cable, it's only on some Web site. And the world will find it. And when that happens, it will be what the 'kiss' was to the theatrical movie business, 5,000 years ago or whenever it was.

I find that, once you get into a position where you can afford a pair of shoes and a decent level of living, success in itself is empty.

I think when you get inured with the past, you get committed to the past, you stop growing.

It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.