Reed Hastings Quotes

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

Work, Great, Care

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

Stupidity, Few, Times

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

Around, Happening, Becoming

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

Education, Work, Technology

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

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

Mistakes, Made, Eating

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

Great, Long, Leaders

How much has it been your experience that Americans follow what happens in the world?
Reed Hastings

Experience, Happens, Follow

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

Service, Internet, Regional

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

Battle, Company, Toward

I hate the photo shoots.
Reed Hastings

Hate, Photo, Shoots

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

Hate, Stuff, Photo

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

Television, Internet, Evolution

I watch mostly independent films.
Reed Hastings

Films, Watch, Mostly

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

Great, Watch, Shows

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, Thought, Heard

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

Life, Fun, Hard

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, Individual

In 20 years from now we will all be able to click and watch TV.
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Able, Watch, Tv

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

Age, Computers, Technology

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.
Reed Hastings

Success, Past, Arrogance

In the States, there's ESPN3, and each country has different options, and other than premiere league football, there tends to be very little global content. And movie and TV rights are pretty broad content.
Reed Hastings

Football, Different, Country

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

Service, Aggressive, Hbo

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

Two, Place, Keep

It turns out that all Netflix streaming peak on Saturday night can fit inside a single fiber optic, which is the size of one human hair.
Reed Hastings

Human, Single, Night

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: October 8, 1960

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