Reed Hastings Quotes

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• Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly.

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  Moving, Company, Dies

  "An Explanation and Some Reflections". media.netflix.com. September 18, 2011.

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

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  Business, Crazy, Stupid

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

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  People, Trying, Outcomes

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• Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high.

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  Teamwork, Cost, Brilliant

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• Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term.

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  Optimistic, Long, Entrepreneur

  "Three Quotes to Help Entrepreneurs When Things Get Tough" by Patricia G. Greene, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2014.

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• Don't be afraid to change the model.

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  Life, Change, Life Changing

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

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  Two, Focus, Way

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

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  Smile, Secret, Taste

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• Tomorrow when you come to work, if it doesn't make the customer happy, move the business forward, and save us money - don't do it.

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  Moving, Tomorrow, Customers

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• Taking smart risks can be very gratifying.

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  Smart, Risk

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• 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.

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  Success, Business, Thinking

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• Be big, fast and flexible.

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  Life Lesson, Bigs, Flexible

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• The Netflix brand for TV shows is really all about binge viewing. The ability to get hooked and watch episode after episode.

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  Tv Shows, Netflix, Watches

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• 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.

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  Ideas, Video, Faults

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• Human entertainment will have moved on to something new. Then the ultimate challenge for us is, can we figure out what that new form of entertainment is?

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  Challenges, Moved On, Entertainment

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• 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.

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  Nice, Aspirin, Want

  "How Netflix got started". Interview with Alyssa Abkowitz, archive.fortune.com. January 28, 2009.

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

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  Epic, Technology, Iron

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• I've worked very hard, but my life's always been fun.

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  Fun, Hard

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• When you grow up, as I have, in the shadow of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and others, success is defined as the total global transformation of a market. To achieve that, you need low prices and an attractive offering. It's about trying to make a positive impact on a big scale.

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  Jobs, Growing Up, Impact

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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

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  Jobs, Long, Leader

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• 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.

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  Entrepreneur, Stupidity, Bird

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• Interactivity and a better experience aren't always the same thing.

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  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.

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  Years, Years Ago, Tvs

  "Reed Hastings interview: 'Everybody would welcome a rival to Sky'". Interview with Dan Sabbagh, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2012.

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• In the long term, you have to believe that movies and TV shows will be like the opera and the novel, pretty nichey businesses.

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  Believe, Tv Shows, Long

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

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  Thinking, Years, Television

  "Reed Hastings interview: 'Everybody would welcome a rival to Sky'". Interview with Dan Sabbagh, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2012.

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