Ed Reed Quotes

When a silhouette or shape is as beautiful as it is functional and relevant, that's true luxury.

Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.

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

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

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.

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

Take a walk on the wild side.

I don't have a drink problem. But if that was the case and doctors told me I had to stop, I'd like to think that I would be brave enough to drink myself into the grave.

The sense of the joy in anything is the sense of Christ.

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.

To the young: Work, work, work, and then work some more!

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.

Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.

Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.

I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.

But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.

I finally had to go to the American Civil Liberties Union here in northern California to get my reply published to what I considered to be a hatchet job done by Stanley Crouch.

Junior high is so much worse than high school because at least in high school different is more accepted, celebrated actually: all the girls with blue hair and gothic Hello Kitty backpacks.

Young people need to vote. They need to get out there. Every vote counts. Educate yourself too. Don't just vote. Know what you're voting for, and stand by that.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

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.

She Got The Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft.

Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high.

Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the US to Europe’s wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.

Beginning to write, you discover what you have to write about.

Courage is an angel which makes the difference between a good life and a great life.

We each have a sixth sense that is attuned to the oneness dimension in life, providing a means for us to guide our lives in accord with our ideas.

Great fashion is all about surprise. It should always be about doing something that isn't by the book.

Whatever you do in this life, take time to sit quietly and let the world tell you what it needs from you. Take a moment to honestly understand what your gifts are-you have them.

The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people.

We need a data network that can easily carry voice, instead of what we have today, a voice network struggling to carry data.

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.

Taking smart risks can be very gratifying.

Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term.

I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.

I got the idea for Netflix after my company was acquired. I had a big late fee for Apollo 13. It was six weeks late and I owed the video store $40. I had misplaced the cassette. It was all my fault.

Life's like a mayonnaise soda.

I learned the value of focus. I learned it is better to do one product well than two products in a mediocre way.

These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.

You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they think it's beautiful.

Our expensive welfare state is fueled by the destructive notion that 'greed' is when you want to keep your own money but 'compassion' is when you want to take somebody else's.

Human entertainment will have moved on to something new. Then the ultimate challenge for us is, can we figure out what that new form of entertainment is?

The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.

Some of the greatest moments in life come from moments that are incomplete.

You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums.