The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

by Robert Iger

The way you do anything is the way you do everything.

“Do what you need to do to make it better.”

Jiro Dreams of Sushi,

Excellence and fairness don’t have to be mutually exclusive.

was instinctively aware of both the need to strive for perfection and the pitfalls of caring only about the product and never the people.

In fact, true integrity—a sense of knowing who you are and being guided by your own clear sense of right and wrong—is a kind of secret weapon.

True authority and true leadership come from knowing who you are and not pretending to be anything else.

If you approach and engage people with respect and empathy, the seemingly impossible can become real.

That may be the hardest but also the most necessary lesson to keep in mind, that wherever you are along the path, you’re the same person you’ve always been.