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

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.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

Rydstrom: "To get it right this time."

You don't always just have to do an indie movie to feel like you're controlling it with a few people that you really have connected with, creatively. You can do it on a bigger scale.

For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.

In some Arab art exhibitions that have happened, there's always this idea that the East is more traditional; they show a lot of works on calligraphy and religion.

It was very interesting growing up in South Africa then. It was extraordinary. It was multiculturalism before it became an issue.

Self-confidence means thinking all the time, "God is in me... God is doing every­thing . . . without God I cannot be . . . all this is God . . . I only want to think of God."

Shattered dreams, worthless years, here I am encased in a hollow shell. Life began, then was done, now I stare into a cold and empty well.