Bob Iger Shares Advice for Disney CEO Successor on Future Vision

“I think because of the company’s place in the world, I think the person running the company has a special responsibility of sorts to maintain Disney’s position in the word as a beloved company, as an admired company, as a company that entertains really the world. Everyone of all ages and from all different walks of life. And I think more than anything else, I would want to be known as someone who was given the keys to this kingdom, so to speak, and quite a kingdom it is, and that I brought it to a place that even Walt would be proud of and what that means is more great storytelling to a larger audience, more innovation, more risk-taking, more really creation of of happiness.”

“be respectful of our past and well aware of the values that really created the value of the company in the first place and carry them forward. But not let anything that’s been done in the past get in the way of bringing the company into the future. And that’s really constant innovation, a constant exploration, you know, constant essentially desire to reinvent or to invent even. More than anything else, that’s what I’d want. But I think we do occupy a place in the world as great storytellers, perhaps maybe the greatest, and I would hope that that position would continue for years and years, decades ahead.”