David Zaslav Quotes

#1. People only watch six to eight to 10 channels, so if you want to be one of those channels, then you have to create content so strong that people have to come not once, not twice but enough that, behaviorally, they start to feel like, 'That's my channel.'

David Zaslav

#2. We're lucky in that channels like Science, Animal Planet and Discovery are essentially universal in terms of their appeal. If you wake up in Moscow and put on the Science channel, it doesn't feel like an American channel, it feels like their channel.

David Zaslav

#3. Courage gives a leader the ability to stand straight and not sway, no matter which way the wind blows.

Mike Krzyzewski

#4. For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.

Bruce Springsteen

#5. I talk to Oprah several times a week, and I see the side of Oprah that's having the time of her life. What she's getting to do with OWN is build a team to create a brand from nothing.

David Zaslav

#6. Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.

Piet Mondrian

#7. Confusion and shame rode me hard, and as much as I knew it was wrong, I needed to keep a distance from her. I couldn't care about her. Maggie was temporary, and when she was gone, that hole I desperately tried to patch over would rip right back open. There was no point in letting her in.

Ashlan Thomas

#8. With [Columbus'] sailors ready to revolt, land--as if cued by a hack playwright--suddenly materialized at the horizon on October 12, 1492.

Alan Axelrod

#9. If you could position the best platform media company around the world with the best content, we could get explosive growth.

David Zaslav

#10. We have to make movies where we do not think this is for the American market or this is for the Chinese market. We have to make a good movie that anyone would just want to sit down and watch because love, language, culture transcend everything.

Michelle Yeoh

#11. To this day, I'm a slave to CNBC.

David Zaslav

#12. I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of required responsibility.

Anna Quindlen

#13. If you look at the heritage of the cable business, if you can own a niche, you have a good chance of succeeding.

David Zaslav

#14. [Readers] are escaping from a narrow, limiting view of the world and journeying to a place where it is possible to experience a deeper connection to our real selves and to live fully in our world.

Duncan Smith

#15. The beautiful thing about TODAY is that you get the choice to make it better than YESTERDAY

Robin Sharma

#16. If you want to be in business, your friends need to be in business too.

Ehab Atalla

#17. Cable is a niche business. If you can own a niche, that can be a very strong business.

David Zaslav

#18. If you wake up in Moscow and put on the Science channel, it doesn't feel like an American channel, it feels like their channel. In fact, Discovery is Vladimir Putin's favorite channel.

David Zaslav

#19. When you experience permanent bliss of the Self (samadhi), then it will be considered that your entire work is completed.

Dada Bhagwan

#20. One of the hardest things to do when you launch a channel is find a voice.

David Zaslav