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The most powerful step that anyone can take to turn their dreams into reality is a simple one. You just need to start. (Marc Randolph)
Here's a simple truth: When you surround a good idea with brilliant people, it changes. No matter how much you plan, great ideas have a mind of their own. View quote
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Companies have centers of gravity. Where they are is part of their identity. View quote
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The lessons I learned starting Netflix - and over a lifetime of entrepreneurship - are broadly applicable to anyone with a dream. View quote
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One of the key lessons I learned at Netflix was the necessity of focus. View quote
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At a startup, it's hard enough to get a single thing right, much less a whole bunch of things. Especially if the things you are trying to do are not only dissimilar but actively impede each other. View quote
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Banks and investors don't usually view a high-ranking executive in the company selling off massive amounts of stock as a good thing. View quote
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Diversity is not a skin thing, necessarily. Diversity is you have people around the table who have different backgrounds and different experiences and think differently. View quote
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By being courageous enough to state the difficult truth, the most important reputation that you will preserve is your own. View quote
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When I was 23, I was quite possibly the worst real estate agent in New York. I was working for my mother's agency in Chappaqua, and no one was buying houses. In eight months, I made zero sales. I rented one apartment. View quote
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One of my bywords is that nobody knows anything, including me. (Marc Randolph)
If you want your company to succeed, you have to have the confidence in your business to take a bet on its future - to risk destroying a mediocre business model for the chance to have a strong one. View quote
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I certainly don't only watch Netflix. I enjoy the fact there is multiple companies producing content. I think it's great for consumers. View quote
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In 'That Will Never Work,' I give readers a clear-eyed insider's look into how one of the least likely startups grew into one of the world's most successful companies. View quote
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That Will Never Work' is my chance to share all the secrets I've accumulated in a 40 years career as a entrepreneur - secrets that can help anyone turn their dream into a reality. View quote
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Build something, make something, test something, sell something. Learn for yourself if your idea is a good one. View quote
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I'm not a 'but' man. Nothing good ever comes of that word. View quote
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As software began to be sold to people who would never consider themselves technical, it suddenly became clear that you needed people who spoke their language. View quote
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In a two-sided market, focusing on the customer will increase a business's ability to extract value from the supply side. View quote
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I'm not sure I want to preserve the old ways just for the sake of saying, 'I don't believe in change.' View quote
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In fact, I'm happy to go on record as saying that the ability to create a reality distortion field is right up there alongside optimism as an entrepreneur's most valuable weapon. (Marc Randolph)
You pick what your customers want, not what your entrenched business model may require you to do. View quote
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Usually, when I give talks, I'm 100% there, 100% present. View quote
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Companies make a big point of how their culture is all about 'bad news first,' but when it comes to people, they are suddenly scared to communicate bad news out of some mistaken feeling of politeness or political correctness. View quote
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I still have long lists of things that I want to accomplish every day. View quote
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