Jim Lee Quotes

There are no easy answers for the balance of how you protect the core business of the books with what the digital future will look like, but that would be our job with DC Comics, to figure that out and experiment and take some risks while always protecting the core business.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

My advice to owners of fashion brands is that you have to give digital a seat at the board table. A lot of brands treat digital strategy as something on the side.

Thriving in the digital space is about constant commitment and engagement rather than being hit-driven like traditional media.

We are convinced of the huge potential that still lies ahead and particularly in The Economist's ability to seize the many development opportunities linked to the digitisation of the media industry.

Straight-up digital delivery will be the way the future works.

Client companies and advertising agencies are old-world-order places. The systems and processes and structures come from a time when you shot the TV commercial, then you did the print ads, then you did everything else - including the website. Everything has changed, but the systems haven't.

We live in the Internet age. Everyone wants clicks. Clicks are what sells.

I don't think there are too many traditional media guys who really understood what the new digital media is about.

Once the words of a book appear onscreen, they are no longer simply themselves; they have become a part of something else. They now occupy the same space, not only as every other digital text, but as every other medium, too.

It became obvious to me that if Abril was to consider itself a communications group, it could not remain indefinitely in paper and ink.

To build a digital media company, you have to focus equally on content and technology. In content, you have to focus equally on the written word and video.

Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well.

Sooner rather than later, any other form other than digital media will be a thing of the past. It won't vanish, but let's face it, this is seemingly the way of the future.

There's an obvious marketing component to doing something digitally where you're reaching out to new readers that you can't do in the existing print marketplace, or that it's difficult to do in the existing print marketplace.

I think it's even more important to have quality in this era of Web media than it has ever been. The fusion of platform technology plus talent is what the next wave is all about, and that's where Vox Media is positioned.

I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoints and things of that sort.

To rush to throw away your magazine business and move it on the iPad is just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear.

The Internet is king. Newspapers are dead or dying. Magazines are shrinking every day. Ad budgets are being cut. The bottom line is now the only line in advertising.

We always said if we were going to target a millennial consumer, then we had to do it in their mother tongue, which is digital.

I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.

It seemed to me the perfect company for the 21st century would be one that was technology-orientated with great content and national scale.

Technology has changed our industry, and I think that's opened up different revenue streams and ways to make money and distribute television. It's made the global conversation easier, quicker.

We decided to significantly change the nature of the services we are providing to our clients by creating, really, a digital-first company, and digital first in two main directions: first, being the leader in providing digital services to our clients and second, making Accenture the most digitalized organization.

I wish Rupert, Robert, and their hugely talented News Corp team continued and growing success in all they do, deploying News Corp's extraordinary skills and potential to the huge opportunities of a relentlessly more digital world.