All Reed Hastings Quotes
- Be big, fast and flexible. Big
- Don't be afraid to change the model. Afraid
- 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… Brilliant
- Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right. Crazy
- When there’s an ache, you want to be like aspirin, not vitamins. Aspirin solves a very particular problem someone has, whereas vitamins are a general… Ache
- About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop.… Around School
- Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago. Ago
- I don't know of any Internet service that opens on a regional basis. Any
- Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating oranges and just… Apple
- 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. Ago
- I founded Netflix. I've built it steadily over 12 years now, first with DVD becoming profitable in 2002, a head-to-head ferocious battle with Blockbuster and… Battle
- I hate the photo shoots. I hate all that stuff. All
- I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television. Broadcast
- Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly. Companies
- I got the idea for Netflix after my company was acquired. I had a big late fee for Apollo 13. It was six weeks late… Acquired
- I learned the value of focus. I learned it is better to do one product well than two products in a mediocre way. Better
- Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high. Brilliant
- If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste. Adapts
- Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term. Brutally
- Taking smart risks can be very gratifying. Gratifying
- What's got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10, 20, 30 years. Education
- When we think about online learning, it's such 'early days.' Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet, even a guy as smart and… Ago
- Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use. Age
- In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on… Age
- Don’t get distracted by the shiny object [and if a crisis comes], execute on the fundamentals. Crisis