When you are producing for ABC, you are producing for a big tent network. So when you are thinking about your story lines and characters, you are thinking about broad appeal. When you are producing for a niche interest, you are producing for a different audience.

Anne Sweeney

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Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.

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It’s amazing what you can do when you stop worrying about failing.

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Take the job or the project that scares you a little. It's the one with the most to teach you.

Anne Sweeney

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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.

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Before you can make a difference, you have to believe you can.

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I think the must-have power qualities for a female or male power leader are really the ability to focus, to work hard, to be extremely goal oriented and to not let the noise and the nonsense interfere with your mission - what you really feel you want to do with your career and your life.

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The greatest gifts you can give your team: clarity, communication, and pulling people together around a shared mission.

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

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Surround yourself with the best people and then get out of their way. Give them a chance to exceed your expectations and they usually will.

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I think the greatest thing we give each other is encouragement...knowing that I'm talking to someone in this mentoring relationship who's interested in the big idea here is very, very important to me. I think if it were just about helping me get to the next step, it would be a heck of a lot less interesting.

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I'm naturally curious, and I've always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.

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Piracy is a huge, huge issue for all of these major content companies, and everybody has a different way of addressing it.

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The more opportunities people have to experience television on different platforms, the more television they consume overall. So there actually has been a benefit, but the ratings have gone down. But we've seen kind of the horizontal benefit of this. And it remains a great, great promotion engine.

Anne Sweeney

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Our future is only limited by our commitment to keep the momentum going. Now that television has been set free from all constraints - including time, place, and all previous definitions - what comes next?

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I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'

Anne Sweeney

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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.

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I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.

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Pages were always supposed to be off-camera - we were supposed to be invisible. But I had a moment where I saw a kid who was ready to flip himself out of the balcony, so I ran down and grabbed him and put him back in his seat. I remember the stage manager taking me aside and saying, "Can you please never do that again? I know you were saving his life, but we have you in the shot."

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I never looked at a title and said, I want that.

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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.

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