10 Quotes by Reed Hastings on Innovation and Leadership

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

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

Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term.

Tomorrow when you come to work, if it doesn’t make the customer happy, move the business forward, and save us money don’t do it.

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

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

Guessing right is a skill developed over time. Not all smart risks work out, but many of them do.

Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.

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.

With failures, you learn one of 99 things to avoid. So they are not that useful. I think it is more useful to learn from others' failures.