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.

Reed Hastings

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.

Reed Hastings

Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.

Reed Hastings

There is a revolution happening, and within two years I think that Wi-Fi and Netflix will be built into all the televisions.

Reed Hastings

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.

Reed Hastings

My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it got acquired. The problem was we tried to systemize everything and set up perfect procedures.

Reed Hastings

It turns out that all Netflix streaming peak on Saturday night can fit inside a single fiber optic, which is the size of one human hair.

Reed Hastings

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

Reed Hastings

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.

Reed Hastings

Think of Internet on the TV like the Web browser. The amount of time you spend on the PC in the browser is just going to grow continuously.

Reed Hastings

Fibre optic is becoming like electricity. If you look at how electricity spread around the globe 100 years ago, that's what's happening now.

Reed Hastings

Well, we're about 24 million subscribers today, and that's up from about 15 million a year ago, so it's a very high rate of growth, and that's what's exciting about the business - more and more people are getting smart TVs, they're watching Netflix on their iPads.

Reed Hastings

Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.

Reed Hastings

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

Reed Hastings

In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.

Reed Hastings

When we think about online learning, it's such 'early days.' Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet, even a guy as smart and insightful as that, 30 years ago can say things like, 'Who's every going to need more than 640K of memory?'

Reed Hastings

On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better.

Reed Hastings

In the States, there's ESPN3, and each country has different options, and other than premiere league football, there tends to be very little global content. And movie and TV rights are pretty broad content.

Reed Hastings

Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows.

Reed Hastings

In 20 years from now we will all be able to click and watch TV.

Reed Hastings

I'm an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO.

Reed Hastings