Businessman Quotes

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.

To succeed today, you have to set priorities, decide what you stand for.

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

It turns out that all Netflix streaming peak on Saturday night can fit inside a single fiber optic, which is the size of one human hair.

It is clear that for many of our members two websites would make things more difficult, so we are going to keep Netflix as one place to go for streaming and DVDs.

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

In the States, there's ESPN3, and each country has different options, and other than premiere league football, there tends to be very little global content. And movie and TV rights are pretty broad content.

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.

In 20 years from now we will all be able to click and watch TV.

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.

I'm on the Facebook board now. Little did they know that I thought Facebook was really stupid when I first heard about it back in 2005.

I'm an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO.