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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

There is an old phrase, ‘hiding in plain sight.’ This is where we find the loved one we miss so much. All we need to do is open our eyes, our minds, and our hearts.

Come on! Who wants to fight me?

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

When you allow people to do what they wish, then that is what they do. They stop doing the things they need to do.

Future forecasting is all about testing strategies - it's like a wind tunnel.

Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it.

I suddenly realized I was racing around so much, I could never catch up with my life

Use "breath prayers" throughout the day, as many Christians have done for centuries. You choose a brief sentence or a simple phrase that can be repeated to Jesus in one breath: "You are with me."

A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong.