As an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term. — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
Something will eventually replace the Internet. But it's hard to know what and when it will happen. — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
The Costa Rican government is prioritizing laying fiber optic over paving roads. Costa Rica is trying to become one of the Internet societies. This… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating oranges and… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
I don't know of any Internet service that opens on a regional basis. — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
So much of the downstream revenue is linked to that initial excitement, to how much revenue is produced in the domestic box office. For… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
We are seeing the beginning of things. Web 2.0 is broadband. Web 3.0 is 10 gigabits a second. — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term. — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use. — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television. — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
