Robert Shea Quotes

In politics, they play games. In Hollywood, they play games. I think that, overall, everybody is trying to do whatever it takes to get ahead.

I'm privileged and grateful to lead The Walt Disney Company and our talented, dedicated team at this exciting time.

I worked for some very good people who have helped me along the way and actually enabled me to have the opportunity to be selected to join the Astronaut Corps.

I just want get to as high as I can go. I think that's the safest and most politically correct thing I can say. I'm not trying to take anyone's spot. I want to create my own lane and shoot to the sky.

I start with people's growth, my own growth included. I don't start with the company's strategy or products. I start with people's growth because I believe that if the people who are running and participating in a company grow, then the company's growth will in many respects take care of itself.

Don't get diverted by trying to do things for your own advancement. In other words, don't be lured into responding to incentives.

We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.

Companies that understand the purpose and philosophy behind the 'why' are usually astute, high-performing organizations that tap directly into the pulse of those they benefit the most.

I'm just trying to get an exposure and make my day.

I saw school as a business and, once I had got what I needed out of it, I left.

Any time I see an opportunity to get ahead, I take it.

If you have a great culture and you're progressing the right way to win I think players will always want to come.

Engaged, enthusiastic, and loyal employees are pivotal drivers of growth and health in any organization.

This is a very short-lived career. I have to do what's best for myself. I have to do what's best for my career and being on top for as long as possible.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

The highest challenge inside organizations is to enable each person to contribute his or her unique talents and passion to accomplish the organization's purpose.

I think when you come from a small college like I did, then you have to use every opportunity available to you.

I've always had a quiet career.

For the moment, I haven't ended my career. I'm young. There are still a lot of goals.

The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success.

I'm getting good exposure because of the movies I'm picking and the people I'm working with.

There are some jobs that you go for because achieving them would take your career in a direction that you would like it to go, but mostly, I want to play the roles and have had the great good fortune and opportunities to play some fantastic roles and been very, very fortunate.

We're selfish to some degree, that's not a criticism and it doesn't mean that we are all narcissists. But in any situation our minds naturally evolve to what's in it for me? How does this affect me? Can this benefit me? Can this harm me? Then we might move on from that and have a more altruistic point of view about things but that's almost always our initial response.

Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.

All of us need to self-promote. We cannot sit back and wait for our gallery or rep to do it all.