Reed Hastings Quotes

• About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform.

  Reed Hastings

  Topics in Education

  Tags in School, Political

• At Netflix, we think you have to build a sense of responsibility where people care about the enterprise. Hard work, like long hours at the office, doesn’t matter as much to us. We care about great work.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sense, Responsibility

• 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.

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  Topics in Mistake

  Tags in Comparing

• But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you’re confident that you’ll catch a bird flying by. It’s an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn’t come by, but a few times it does.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Entrepreneur, Confident

• Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Broadcast, Tv

• Fibre optic is becoming like electricity. If you look at how electricity spread around the globe 100 years ago, that’s what’s happening now.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Electricity

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Founded, Steadily, Stream

• I don’t know of any Internet service that opens on a regional basis.

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  Topics in Service

  Tags in Internet

• How much has it been your experience that Americans follow what happens in the world?

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  Topics in Experience

  Tags in American

• I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.

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  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in Television

• Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Leaders, Focused

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Photo, Shoots

• 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.

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  Topics in Facebook Status

• In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, ‘That was the Internet Age.’ And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.

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  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Human Progress

• In 20 years from now we will all be able to click and watch TV.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Click, Watch, Tv

• I watch mostly independent films.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Independent, Films

• I’m an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Subscribed, Show

• I’ve worked very hard, but my life’s always been fun.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Worked, Hard

• 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.

  Reed Hastings

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Member, Web

• If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte… ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual’s taste.

   

  Reed Hastings

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Starbucks

Reed Hastings (40)

Birth:	8th October, 1960
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Entrepreneur, Philanthropist

About

Wilmot Reed Hastings, Jr. is an entrepreneur and education philanthropist. He is the CEO of Netflix, and on the boards of Microsoft, Facebook, and numerous non-profit organizations.

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