In the U.S., HBO is a very aggressive service.

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.

You don't have to be beautiful to have a beautiful life.

I don't follow precedent I establish it.

I never voted for a president until I felt Obama had a dream and might pull it off, and that was the first time I ever voted for a president.

The most important thing in life is to love what you’re dong, because that’s the only way you’ll ever be really good at it.

[Ecstasy] had its flaws, but again it was shot on a low budget, and they did well. It's not in the same league as Filth.

A lot of actors think that what we do is so important, like we're saving people's lives or something.

Christ sent me to preach the gospel and he will look after the results.

We were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors," she told him once. "I was paper and she was rock so I lived and she died.

You succeeded at your attempts to make me Need you desperately to vindicate me

I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.