Anne Sweeney

If you have a great day at work and you’ve been hit with all these great ideas and there’s a lot of excitement on your team, your mind doesn’t turn off. For years I’ve kept a pad of paper and pen by me at night, because things just occur to you.

Anne Sweeney

If you want to see the future, watch 8 year olds.

Anne Sweeney

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.

Anne Sweeney

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.

Anne Sweeney

A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting – poof! – that they’re going to produce great work.

Anne Sweeney

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.

Anne Sweeney

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.

Anne Sweeney

I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that they think belong to successful people.

Anne Sweeney

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.

Anne Sweeney

It’s not the balanced life we remember, it’s the beautiful life.

Anne Sweeney