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.

Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.

I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I've taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea.

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.

Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.

To this day, I fondly recall the challenges of building a fire, pitching a tent, climbing a New England mountain, canoeing on a lake. Camp songs still resonate inside me. Competition exists at Keewaydin, of course, but nobody fails summer camp, a nice respite from winters of fortune and misfortune at school.

You just have to make sure the model you're working on does not undersell your product.