Reed Hastings Quotes

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.

I've worked very hard, but my life's always been fun.

In the U.S., HBO is a very aggressive service.

Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly.

There is a revolution happening, and within two years I think that Wi-Fi and Netflix will be built into all the televisions.

Be big, fast and flexible.

The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people.

I don't know of any Internet service that opens on a regional basis.

Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.

Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term.

I hate the photo shoots.

Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows.

In 20 years from now we will all be able to click and watch TV.

Don't get distracted by the shiny object [and if a crisis comes], execute on the fundamentals.

I learned the value of focus. I learned it is better to do one product well than two products in a mediocre way.

School districts in the US don't adopt technology very quickly.

Don't be afraid to change the model.

I hate the photo shoots. I hate all that stuff.

If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte ... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.

Fibre optic is becoming like electricity. If you look at how electricity spread around the globe 100 years ago, that's what's happening now.

I'm on the Facebook board now. Little did they know that I thought Facebook was really stupid when I first heard about it back in 2005.

The Netflix brand for TV shows is really all about binge viewing. The ability to get hooked and watch episode after episode.

Think of Internet on the TV like the Web browser. The amount of time you spend on the PC in the browser is just going to grow continuously.

Truly brilliant marketing happens when you take something most people think of as a weakness and reposition it so people think of it as a strength.

I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.

On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better.

I'm an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO.

Tomorrow when you come to work, if it doesn't make the customer happy, move the business forward, and save us money - don't do it.

Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high.

Something will eventually replace the Internet. But it's hard to know what and when it will happen.

Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.

We are seeing the beginning of things. Web 2.0 is broadband. Web 3.0 is 10 gigabits a second.

What's got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10, 20, 30 years.

Taking smart risks can be very gratifying.

There's a finite market for DVD-by-mail, and the growth over the next 10 years will be in streaming.

Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.

It turns out that all Netflix streaming peak on Saturday night can fit inside a single fiber optic, which is the size of one human hair.

How much has it been your experience that Americans follow what happens in the world?