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

I learned the value of focus. I learned it is better to do one product well than two products in a mediocre way.

If you look at cable networks, they almost always start licensing content wherever they can, so they can build a subscriber base. But then they start doing their own content; it's a pretty well-trodden path.

I don't know of any Internet service that opens on a regional basis.

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.

In the long term, you have to believe that movies and TV shows will be like the opera and the novel, pretty nichey businesses.

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.