Bob Iger Quotes

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

I am a traditionalist, and I'm an innovator. Most of what I do is to weigh change and legislate to the best of my ability on what should change and what should not. Do I have a respect for tradition? Of course I do. Do I have a blind belief in it? No.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.

Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future.

What was good enough for my father is good enough for me" is a treasured English axiom which, if strictly carried out, would have kept us to wooden ploughs and water clocks. In these days we need to be inoculated with some of the nervous energy of the Americans.

Many people repeat the past. I'm not interested. I prefer evolution.

We can't be beholden to the past.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you've got tradition, and on the other hand you've got change; in many people's mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I'm a big tradition guy.

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.

The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I am against conservation. We should let young people move forward, whether we agree with them or not. We should let new things happen.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

We have embraced change - change in the economy, change in the government, and change in the schools…. innovation and change are in our blood

We live in a changing world … shall we maintain all our theaters in the same traditional box.

You cannot make a living on the past …the stone age did not end because they ran out of stones.

To endeavor to rehabilitate the sabbath of our forefathers is as foolish as to try to make people go back into log houses and cook in a fire-place. Some persons can never realize that the world grows; that what was a help to one age becomes a hindrance to another; that time corrects the mistakes of men and that respect and reverence for our ancestors does not necessarily require us to adopt their clothes or their habits.

The American Dream can no more remain static than can the American nation.... We cannot any longer take an old approach to world problems. They aren't the same problems. It isn't the same world. We must not adopt the methods of our ancestors; instead, we must emulate that pioneer quality in our ancestors that made them attempt new methods for a New World.

We should not fear what is new, but we should not throw out that which is in the past but is still valuable.