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.

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.

There is no peace, I'm sorry to say. We find it. We lose it. We find it again. We lose it again.

The destiny of every country is in the hands of the people who know God.

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.

To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

People should try eating no animal products for just one day a week.

Not too isolated, not too many relationships, the middle, that's wisdom.

Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.

People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.

We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people.