Not every show has to work equally well. It just has to work better than any competitor because then we can outbid for the content.

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.

After rain comes fair weather.

Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the time. It's a game of fewer errors, better facts, and better reporting.

My job is to awaken possibility in other people.

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager.

That's what is great about what I do, going from one job to the other.

Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.

The light would show (if it could harden) Eternities of kitchen garden

Because that day with Willem, I may have pretended to be someone named Lulu, but I had never been more honest in my life. Maybe that's the thing with liberation. It comes at a price.

I don't climb mountains. Mountains climb me. The mountain is myself. I climb on myself.

The finest fruit earth holds up to its Maker is a finished man.