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

In the U.S., HBO is a very aggressive service.

I got the idea for Netflix after my company was acquired. I had a big late fee for Apollo 13. It was six weeks late and I owed the video store $40. I had misplaced the cassette. It was all my fault.

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

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

When you grow up, as I have, in the shadow of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and others, success is defined as the total global transformation of a market. To achieve that, you need low prices and an attractive offering. It's about trying to make a positive impact on a big scale.

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