Reed Hastings famous quotes

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.
-- Reed Hastings

#Stupid #Crazy #Ideas

Taking smart risks can be very gratifying.
-- Reed Hastings

#Smart #Risk

Don't be afraid to change the model.
-- Reed Hastings

#Life #Change #Life Changing

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

#Moving #Company

The Costa Rican government is prioritizing laying fiber optic over paving roads. Costa Rica is trying to become one of the Internet societies. This is happening throughout the world.
-- Reed Hastings

#Government #Trying #World

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

#Years #Innovation #Littles

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

#Hbo #Watches #Bunch

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.
-- Reed Hastings

#Stupid #Littles #Firsts

It is clear that for many of our members two websites would make things more difficult, so we are going to keep Netflix as one place to go for streaming and DVDs.
-- Reed Hastings

#Dvds #Two #Netflix

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

#Tv Shows #Tvs #Netflix

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

#Hbo #Aggressive

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

#Smile #Secret #Taste

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

#Optimistic #Long #Entrepreneur

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

#Space #Years #Growth

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 insightful as that, 30 years ago can say things like,'Who's every going to need more than 640K of memory?'
-- Reed Hastings

#Memories #Smart #Thinking

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

#Technology #Epic #Iron

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 now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.
-- Reed Hastings

#Technology #Years #Long

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

#People #Trying #Outcomes

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

#Fun

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

#Teamwork #Cost #Brilliant

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

#Two #Focus #Way

But 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 by, but a few times it does.
-- Reed Hastings

#Entrepreneur #Stupidity #Bird

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

#Jobs #Long #Leader

Be big, fast and flexible.
-- Reed Hastings

#Life Lesson #Bigs

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.
-- Reed Hastings

#Thinking #People #Marketing

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. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform.
-- Reed Hastings

#School #Technology #Organization

Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.
-- Reed Hastings

#Years #Tvs

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

#Internet #Bases

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 went back to Blockbuster.
-- Reed Hastings

#Mistake #Apples #Orange

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 and I owed the video store $40. I had misplaced the cassette. It was all my fault.
-- Reed Hastings

#Ideas #Apollo #Video

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

#Thinking #Years #Television

I hate the photo shoots. I hate all that stuff.
-- Reed Hastings

#Hate #Stuff #I Hate

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 evolving the company toward streaming.
-- Reed Hastings

#Years #Dvds #Battle

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.
-- Reed Hastings

#Years #Becoming #Looks

At Netflix, we think you have to build a sense of responsibility where people care about the enterprise. Hard work, like long hours at the office, doesn't matter as much to us. We care about great work.
-- Reed Hastings

#Hard Work #Responsibility #Thinking

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 ‘nice to have’ market.
-- Reed Hastings

#Nice #Aspirin #Want

I watch mostly independent films.
-- Reed Hastings

#Independent #Watches #Film

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

#Fundamentals #Crisis #Distracted