Henry Blodget Quotes

• 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

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• 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

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• It's all about who your team is and who your people are.

  Henry Blodget

  Team, People

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• 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

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• 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

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Digital advertising is now larger than TV.

  Henry Blodget

  Digital, Tvs, Advertising

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• Arrogance follows distribution strength.

  Henry Blodget

  Arrogance, Distribution

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Almost any show that has reviewers behind it, Rotten Tomatoes behind it, will find a way to survive.

  Henry Blodget

  Tomatoes, Rotten, Way

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• 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

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• 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

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In the new world of digital, there are no must-read publications any more.

  Henry Blodget

  World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 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

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• You have to have a business model you believe in and like.

  Henry Blodget

  Believe, Models, Business Models

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Some things go slow, slow, slow, and then - wham! - they're over.

  Henry Blodget

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• 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

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The first reaction is, get defensive. Second reaction is, what are we going to do about it?

  Henry Blodget

  Firsts, Reactions

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• 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

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• 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

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Television is not hurting. Television is in fantastic shape. It's just a golden age for other people.

  Henry Blodget

  Hurt, People, Age

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• 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

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• 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

  "My Hotel Room In Vegas Came With A Sex Kit ..." by Henry Blodget, www.businessinsider.com. January 8, 2015.

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• 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

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The Financial Times is a wonderful publication, as is the Wall Street Journal and many others. But the new generation is consuming media fundamentally differently. At Business Insider, we have the chance to embrace that whole-heartedly. We do not have a print legacy, digital is not our second business behind a newspaper. It is our only one.

  Henry Blodget

  Wall, Legacy, Chance

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We have more information than ever before, and it is harder to avoid actually seeing what the other side is saying. Yes, we in Business insider focus on publications that we feel speak to us, but that is the same way it was 20 or 100 years ago. In the US, two million people have subscribed to the New York Times and many more millions think it is a terrible, liberal paper they would never read. We can choose to put ourselves in a bubble of only people who agree with us, but in the digital world there are many more ways of saying "Hey, here is something you might want to consider".

  Henry Blodget

  Thinking, People, Focus

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Before the internet, big publications were like hydrants in the desert. There were relatively few of them, we needed each one of them tremendously and they had control over what was delivered. Now they are like little streams flowing into a massive ocean.

  Henry Blodget

  Ocean, Internet

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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