Reed Hastings (Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr.) Quotes

Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating oranges and just went back to Blockbuster.

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• The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • People
  • Live
  • Standards

• I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Ancient
  • Bloody
  • Haunted

• I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Find
  • Fight
  • Watch

• Let the path be open to talent.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Path
  • Talent
  • Open

• My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.

  

  Larry Page
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Great
  • Words
  • Voice

• When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Pretty

• My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Music
  • Country

• Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Character
  • Success
  • Said

• What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Children
  • Why
  • Kids

• To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Dream
  • Focus
  • Justice

• The Palestinians must be brought to an understanding that Jerusalem will always remain under Israeli sovereignty and that there is no point for them in opening negotiations about Jerusalem.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Understanding
  • Jerusalem

• I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • Me
  • Film
  • Choose

• One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Want
  • Artist
  • Generations

• We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law.

  

  Jack Cade
  • Men
  • May
  • True

• I think wealthy conservatives are busy investing in profit and job creation and enterprise, and wealthy liberals, many of them either from the media industry themselves or from - they recognize the value of communications and are more ready to put money into a less profitable enterprise, namely the media.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Money
  • Job
  • Value

• We have to care about our bodies and what we put in them. Women have to take the time to focus on our mental health-take time for self, for the spiritual, without feeling guilty or selfish. The world will see you the way you see you, and treat you the way you treat yourself.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Time
  • World
  • Women

• I think Katy B encapsulates young London in a way I never could. She reps London harder than anyone song-wise since Lily Allen.

  

  Mark Ronson
  • She
  • Song
  • Wise

• We live in this era that has benefited from the Industrial Revolution, and we live with a kind of luxury and plenty that even all but the poorest of Americans live with a kind of sensuousness that was unimagined by medieval kings. But in order to get to this point, a lot of people had to suffer in really terrible ways.

  

  David Liss
  • People
  • Live
  • Revolution

• Work hard, because it's obviously not always going to be easy. It's a really hard industry. Put yourself out there and put videos online, because that, honestly, is what changed my life.

  

  Brynn Cartelli
  • Life
  • Work

• Foremost is the principle that the purpose of consumer research is to understand the customer's needs and wishes, and thus design product and service that will provide better living for him in the future. A second principle is that no one can guess the future loss of business from a dissatisfied customer...

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Business
  • Future
  • Purpose

• You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff.

  

  Adam Rich
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• It helped me understand music and to understand people and performing, it was all positive for me and set me up for where I am now.

  

  PJ Morton Maroon 5
  • People
  • Music
  • Positive

• Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating oranges and just went back to Blockbuster.

  

  Reed Hastings
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Eating