Henry Blodget famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The definition of strong leadership is not about making decisions that are popular. Making popular decisions is easy - you don't need to be a leader to do that. The definition of strong leadership is to make decisions that are unpopular, but are nevertheless sound.
-- Henry Blodget

#Leadership #Strong #Decision
I'm no expert in vibrators, but I was surprised to learn that one could fit in that little box.
-- Henry Blodget

#Experts #Littles #Fit
Digital advertising is now larger than TV.
-- Henry Blodget

#Digital #Tvs #Advertising
When television came in, everybody thought that was the end of the movie business, which was not and is not.
-- Henry Blodget

#Television #Ends #Movie Business
It's all about who your team is and who your people are.
-- Henry Blodget

#Team #People
People have been predicting the death of television for 20 years now, and so far it's been entirely wrong. But it does seem viewership habits are starting to change.
-- Henry Blodget

#Years #People #Doe
There's too much bad. The worst is mediocre. Bad is easy. There's high quality, there's pornography, and then there's bad.
-- Henry Blodget

#Quality #Too Much #Easy
Arrogance follows distribution strength.
-- Henry Blodget

#Arrogance #Distribution
Almost any show that has reviewers behind it, Rotten Tomatoes behind it, will find a way to survive.
-- Henry Blodget

#Tomatoes #Rotten #Way
I think the water cooler is more important than ever. "Oh, did you hear that 'Inside Amy Schumer' is fabulous?" Where do you find it? It's on Netflix, it's on iTunes, it's on places nobody ever heard of five years ago.
-- Henry Blodget

#Thinking #Years #Water
My mission is to figure out the journalistic model for the digital medium, finding out how we get the right stories readers want, at the right time and wherever they want to read them.
-- Henry Blodget

#Right Time
In the new world of digital, there are no must-read publications any more.
-- Henry Blodget

#World
The tech folks have seen WiFi as the way to untether. And what better reason to untether than entertainment content? So there's nobody better positioned than the in-home Wi-Fi purveyor.
-- Henry Blodget

#Home #Way #Entertainment
You have to have a business model you believe in and like.
-- Henry Blodget

#Believe #Models #Business Models
Some things go slow, slow, slow, and then - wham! - they're over.
-- Henry Blodget
Before the internet, a journalist would write an article about a company that the company felt was unfair and missed a point. All they could do was write a letter to the editor and wait, and maybe a week later it would be printed, or not. Now, they can go to medium.com and immediately publish a long rebuttal, saying the journalist forgot this and did not consider that, the analyst is wrong here. Everybody pulls that immediately into the debate. So it is a much more democratic field for ideas.
-- Henry Blodget

#Writing #Long #Waiting
The first reaction is, get defensive. Second reaction is, what are we going to do about it?
-- Henry Blodget

#Firsts #Reactions
It's very hard to be good. It is self-destructive thinking to think that there is too much good.
-- Henry Blodget

#Thinking #Self #Too Much
Television is not hurting. Television is in fantastic shape. It's just a golden age for other people.
-- Henry Blodget

#Hurt #People #Age
Television is like the movie business. It's not the least-objectionable program - it's the best program that gets positioned. Same in the movie business. It's not just everything automatically gets done by the "in" crowd.
-- Henry Blodget

#Done #Television #Crowds
The content defines the platform, so whereas when I was working at ABC from '66 to '76, people said it was the "great wasteland." It was the least-objectionable program that succeeded. It was, if you could get behind "All in the Family," you were successful.
-- Henry Blodget

#Successful #People #Program
In the era of networks only, I cannot tell you the number of shows that we don't know about that did not survive. They got canceled. But there are a few that survived by accident, because they didn't have anything else to do, and they stayed with it.
-- Henry Blodget

#Numbers #Eras #Shows
Fifteen years ago, nobody thought that content would ever work as a business. It was impossible to raise any money, initial investments were $10,000, seldom $100,000. It is only over the last two or three years that we have started to see very large amounts of capital coming into the digital industry. That has created a lot more competition.
-- Henry Blodget

#Competition #Impossible #Investment
When CNN launched in the early 1980s, everybody said: A 24-hour news network won't work. They launched, they did ok, CNN went almost bankrupt because of the risks they had taken, they got bailed out, and 25 years later CNN is a huge global brand. I think the same is going to happen in digital. If you look at the younger generation, there is a huge consumption of digital media and almost no consumption of print or traditional television. Eventually money will follow that. It is just a question of which companies win, how long it takes to get there and what kind of model you need to apply.
-- Henry Blodget

#Taken #Winning #Thinking
Successful publication is all about the mix. What Buzzfeed discovered was that people like cat pictures. We can pretend to be embarrassed about that as a species, but it is actually a truth. So Buzzfeed publishes a lot of cat pictures. But they use the money from cat pictures to build an exceptional newsroom that publishes stories that far fewer people want to read, but it is very important journalism.
-- Henry Blodget

#Cat #Successful #People

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