Quality is a great business plan.

Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.

We believe in producing quality because, if you produce quality, you get the business. We know what the customers want, what they want to eat.

The earnings are good and better than expected in some business areas, and also reflect improvements in the earnings quality. Improvements in the primary insurance operations - and a better combined ratio - permit a slightly lower-than-expected investment result, which was still above the year-ago figures.

Nobody pays attention to the way a person's shirt folds around his shoulder when they sit down, but if that shirt folded in an unusual way, you'd notice it.

I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.