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

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.

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.

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

Our life is nothing but expression of our deepest thoughts.

Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.

The only people I have been able to use are those who fought

He doesn't bring many girls round unless they're part of a job - but also 'cause his smell can sometimes kill kittens.

My husband is my most valuable resource.

We are these people, wistful, ironical, wilful, who have no part in new-world reconstruction, in the confederacy of labour.

It's [Augusta National] a difficult course and it doesn't make it easier when you have three shanks.

No one man should have all that power.

In 'The Way Back' survivors were all ordinary people, and that's the whole point, that's who I felt these people should be, and they shouldn't be that hero that stands out.

Gettin' near the fire, chica, doesn't necessarily mmean you'll get burned.