The best Quotes by Reed Hastings

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

If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.

I've worked very hard, but my life's always been fun.

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

There is a revolution happening, and within two years I think that Wi-Fi and Netflix will be built into all the televisions.

California has officially announced that jaywalking is now no longer a crime. So congratulations to the Californians who like walking places. This is great news for the six of you.

New Mexico. It's another state. I mean, it's like California, just less traffic.

We all have our little faults. Mine's in California.

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day.

You're gonna like Massachusetts. It's very patriotic - perfect for a fresh start.

I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.

I will work my heart out to earn the trust of the people of Massachusetts.

The man in the White House is not the cause of what is broken, he is just the latest and most extreme symptom of what's gone wrong in America. A product of a rigged system that props up the rich and powerful and kicks dirt on everyone else.

I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.

No one has ever been delighted to be in Boston in December. December? What are you excited about? "Oh, I love chapped lips and getting thrown up on by Patriots fans, how peachy."

Welcome to Boston, where the weather is made up and the seasons don't matter.

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

Let's be honest: There's no better college town than Boston.

We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

The problem is... netbooks aren't better in anything!

I want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer, 'cause you guys paid for all this.

Reusable space vehicles are the only way to build a road to space. And we need to build a road to space so that our children can build the future.

Everybody who's been to space says it changes them in some way, and I'm just really excited to figure out how it's gonna change me.

This journey began some 27 years ago. Amazon was only an idea, and it had no name. The question I was asked most frequently at that time was, "What’s the internet?" Blessedly, I haven’t had to explain that in a long while.

Great companies are built on great products.

In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks.

I've actually not read any books on time management.

If you're not careful, Netflix & Chill can turn into Disney+ & Children pretty damn fast.

See what's next.

The woke mind virus is making Netflix unwatchable.

Sometimes all a girl really needed was a very bad idea.

Hercules, huh? That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn - there he is.

Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

If one does not often make mistakes, then one has not challenged oneself enough.

I think we can all agree Elon isn't serious and it's time to move on. I offered a real date. Dana White offered to make this a legit competition for charity. Elon won't confirm a date, then says he needs surgery, and now asks to do a practice round in my backyard instead. If Elon ever gets serious about a real date and official event, he knows how to reach me. Otherwise, time to move on. I'm going to focus on competing with people who take the sport seriously.

I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.

You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change.

Starbucks has a role and a meaningful relationship with people that is not only about the coffee.

You'll learn more about a road by traveling it than by consulting all the maps in the world.

Facebook is manipulating the public almost everywhere on Earth. That is why they won't open source their algorithm.

Your laugh is the reason your parents never tickled you growing up.