Don't be afraid to change the model.

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.

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

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.

Formal education will make you a living self-education will make you a fortune.

The beauty of traveling solo is that you wonder unexpectedly, but almost certainly into the direction you were meant to go.

God gave you a gift of 86 400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you

I saw the bathroom fixtures as a kind of American Trinity.

I will continue to fight for justice, fairness, and constitutional rights until my dying breath.

At bottom is the best soil to sow and grow something new again. In that sense, hitting bottom, while extremely painful, is also the sowing ground.

I am optimistic that humanity is going to make it, that humanity is going to reach, finally, a new state of consciousness which will then create a different kind of world.

I did not know the work of mourning Is a labor in the dark We carry inside ourselves

Times go by turns, and chances change by course, from foul to fair, from better hap to worse.

It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.