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

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.

I have not tried to write the history of that language, but rather the archaeology of that silence.

Often the experiences that challenge us the most are the ones that harbor the greatest gift.

Do you think he's the murderer?""It's worse than that -- he's an actor!

My heart is really pounding, " I said. "That's how you know you're having fun.

What I lose today I can't make up tomorrow. I have to do it today.

It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Independent publishing gives everyone a voice, and those with a voice to which people inherently want to listen will find a way to the top.

My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.

Fun without sell gets nowhere, but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.

I want to try the impossible to show that it can be done.