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

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

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.

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

What's got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10, 20, 30 years.

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.

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.