Reed Hastings

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

How much has it been your experience that Americans follow what happens in the world? It's something we'll monitor, but Americans are somewhat self-absorbed.

We're not in the news business. We're not trying to do 'truth to power.' We're trying to entertain… We don't feel bad about [pulling the 'Patriot Act' episode in Saudi Arabia] at all.

I don't see any positives.

Like when you do push-ups or when you run — it hurts, but you know you're getting stronger.

a very backwards a combination of meth. and uh little kids.

eventually uh the one of the game wardens drove up and basically said 'What the heck are you doing?' Um and then he showed me the cat tracks of um one of the large cats that had been tracking. me.

I like to think of that as my family. time

Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly.

Most companies try to be everything to everybody, and that's usually a bad strategy.

We are a company that is very good at making mistakes.

If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking enough risks.

The worst thing you can do is not try new things.

Sleep is the enemy.

We're not trying to be a general entertainment service. We're trying to be the best entertainment service.

There are no rules, rules.

Most companies are so afraid of making a mistake they don't do anything bold.

Our culture is to avoid rules.

We don’t manage by trying to avoid errors. We manage by trying to get great results.

It's much harder to get a small number of things right than a large number of things wrong.