Quotes by Reed Hastings

Reed Hastings

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.

Organization

School

Technology

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.

Hard Work

Responsibility

Thinking

Be big, fast and flexible.

Bigs

Flexible

Life Lesson

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

Entrepreneur

Long

Optimistic

Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.

Tvs

Years

Years Ago

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.

Bird

Entrepreneur

Stupidity

But it may be one of our best markets in the long term because when the Japanese society embraces a brand it is a very deep connection, so we’re willing to make that investment knowing that it’s not the quick route to success that might be in other countries.

Country

Knowing

Success

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

Company

Dies

Moving

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.

Apples

Mistake

Orange

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

Brilliant

Cost

Teamwork

Follow The Behaviour University in order to get the greatest quotes from the greatest people of all time so that you can tap into your own greatness.

Aggressive

Apples

Aspirin

Bases

Battle

Becoming

Believe

Bigs

Bird

Brilliant

Bunch

Business

Challenges

Change

Company

Competitors

Cost

Country

Crazy

Crisis

Customers

Dies

Distracted

Dvds

Entertainment

Entrepreneur

Epic

Faults

Fiber

Film

Firsts

Flexible

Focus

Fun

Fundamentals

Games

Government

Growing Up

Growth

Happens

Hard

Hard Work

Hate

Hbo

Horse

I Hate

Ideas

Impact

Independent

Innovation

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Quotes by Reed Hastings

Reed Hastings

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.

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.

Be big, fast and flexible.

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

Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.

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.

But it may be one of our best markets in the long term because when the Japanese society embraces a brand it is a very deep connection, so we’re willing to make that investment knowing that it’s not the quick route to success that might be in other countries.

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.

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

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