Reed Hastings Quotes

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

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

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

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 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.
Reed Hastings

Able, Watch, Tv

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

Success, Past, Arrogance

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

Service, Aggressive, Hbo

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

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

Crazy, Stupid, Ideas

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

Year, Internet, Innovation

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

Movies, Shows, Focused

School districts in the US don't adopt technology very quickly.
Reed Hastings

Technology, School, Adopt

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

Age, Technology, Humanity

There is a revolution happening, and within two years I think that Wi-Fi and Netflix will be built into all the televisions.
Reed Hastings

Revolution, Two, Within

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: October 8, 1960

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