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“Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then theyâ€™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

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