Why would I ever want to run Disney? Wouldn't it make more sense just to sell them Pixar and retire?

We're just enthusiastic about what we do.

Ad campaigns are necessary for competition. But good PR educates people; that's all it is.

When the sales guys run the company, the product guys do not matter so much, and a lot of them just turn off.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

I was in the parking lot, with the key in the car, and I thought to myself: If this is my last night on earth, would I rather spend it at a business meeting or with this woman? I ran across the parking lot, asked her if she'd have dinner with me. She said yes, we walked into town, and we've been together ever since.

What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I didn't really know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down. I was a very public failure.