Reed Hastings (Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr.) Quotes

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.

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• Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Man
  • Differences
  • Selfish

• An evening dress that reveals a woman's ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Woman
  • Walking
  • Dress

• I just want people to know they are the masters of their own fortune and misfortune. A lot of us think that doctors and drugs are going to control and help us, but the reality is we're our own best doctor.

  

  Dan Hill
  • People
  • Help
  • Reality

• Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.

  

  Dan Abrams
  • People
  • Good
  • Hope

• At a certain point in your career - I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Help
  • Career
  • Mean

• My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Period
  • Professional
  • Intelligent

• I am a lifelong Democrat.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Democrat
  • Lifelong

• I don't like music docs, usually. There's nothing to really say. What can you say about music? Normally, you can't say too much. There are a few really good ones, but the majorities are boring, I think.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Good
  • Music
  • Think

• You sometimes use the excuse, 'I'm a writer, dammit, I can do anything I want,' but that doesn't work.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Work
  • Want
  • Sometimes

• Trump brings power to those who hate their lack of it, and his message is tonic to communities that have felt nothing but decline for decades.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Power
  • Hate
  • Trump

• I still care a lot about my personal style, and since moving to New York and having a little more control over my own money, I've been able to make my 12-year-old fashion nerd dream comes true.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Money
  • True
  • Dream

• 'Regression testing'? What's that? If it compiles, it is good; if it boots up, it is perfect.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Up
  • Good
  • Perfect

• Infancy, n. The period of our lives when, according to Wordsworth, 'Heaven lies about us.' The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Heaven

• Labor, n. One of the processes by which A acquires property of B.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

• The sun provides the moon with its brightness.

  

  Anaxagoras
  • Sun
  • Moon

• That books do not take the place of experience, and that learning is no substitute for genius, are two kindred phenomena; their common ground is that the abstract can never take the place of the perceptive.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Experience
  • Learning

• Doubt comes in at the window, when Inquiry is denied at the door.

  

  Benjamin Jowett
  • Doubt
  • Door

• I get naturally uncomfortable when I'm put under a magnifying glass.

  

  The Weeknd

• Travel magazines are just one cupcake after another. They're not about travel. The travel magazine is, in fact, about the opposite of travel. It's about having a nice time on a honeymoon, or whatever.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Time
  • Nice
  • Travel

• Even four harnessed horses cannot bring imprudent words back into the mouth.

  

  Confucius
  • Mouth
  • Horses
  • Imprudent

• When the Egyptians decide something, probably it is not appropriate for the U.S. When the Americans decide something, this, of course, is not appropriate for Egypt.

  

  Mohammed Morsi
  • Something
  • Appropriate
  • Egyptians

• I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Children
  • Opinion
  • Silent

• I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

  

  Barbara Branden
  • My Life
  • Sake
  • My Love

• 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.

  

  Reed Hastings
  • Shadow
  • Achieve
  • Transformation