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.

Truly brilliant marketing happens when you take something most people think of as a weakness and reposition it so people think of it as a strength.

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.

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

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

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

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