This is true not just for Netflix but I believe true for every idea: It was a bad idea; it didn't work; it was a starting point. We tried it. We learned stuff. We did experiments. We began, little by little, iterating the company—and that's kind of the key. So many people get an idea in their head and they get fixated on it ... Everyone tells them 'That will never work,' and they stop. You've just got to start.

One of the catalysts to changing my life or my attitude is my body because I can control that. I can control when I get up. I can control what I eat. I can control how much I work out. I can't always control whether someone's going to buy my product, or follow my video, or like something—that's out of my control.

You really can do whatever you want to do ... Almost all the best things came from when I just invented my own path.

The biggest investors still really aren't into Bitcoin. So, in baseball terms, it's sort of like the bottom of the first inning in terms of the Bitcoin story. And if it really is gold 2.0, then its market cap has to be greater than gold's, and right now the above-ground gold supply market cap is $9 trillion. Bitcoin is somewhere around $200 billion ... Bitcoin could appreciate 40-45x.

You don't go get very wealthy if you think like everybody else, if you behave like everybody else. You're going to have an average ordinary life if you think like everyone else.

The way to think about Bitcoin is it's very similar to gold. It's considered gold 2.0 because it has the same properties that make gold [valuable], but it's actually superior than gold with those properties. So, gold is a scarce and precious metal; Bitcoin's supply is actually fixed and will always be fixed.

The idea counts for shit. It's kind of fun to riff on the idea, but the idea is just the starting point; it is the team. In fact, it is people, people, people.

Life is not short; life is long. Trust me. And the decisions you make in your 20s have a whole lot to do with what happens the next 70, 80, 100 years of your damn life.

I really think it's important to have your own conviction. You can look at other investors and... talk to them about why they invested or why they chose not to invest, but at the end of the day, it's about your own conviction. So, if you don't believe in it, don't do it.

Self-confidence really is built by keeping the promises you make to yourself.

One of the best things that can ever happen to you is you figure out two important things about yourself: one is what you're good at and the other one is what you enjoy doing ... If you can combine those two, you've got it set.

As you're getting famous and you're getting rich & successful, you might start to believe your own bullshit. I can tell you that every time that that's happened to me in my life, I've had some kind of pitfall or I stepped on a landmine.

I think so much of being a good investor over a long period of time is figuring out who you are, and who you're right for, and who you're not.

I've long since realized it's impossible to tell a good idea from a bad idea. And so, for me, it's not about falling in love with the idea; I want to fall in love with the problem because the problem won't go away.

Bitcoin's just the starting point, but crypto is here to stay. It's the future; it's a movement; it's a technology; but it's also a philosophy of the way the world is going towards decentralization.

I think one of the keys to being successful is eventually just understanding and accepting yourself.

This is an insight for younger people: I was just focused on money, but I didn't understand how to think big, and so for young guys, you got to think way big about yourself.

I've always been someone who's very passionate about ultimately one thing—and that's delighting the end customer.

I think of product-market fit [as] when do you have enough information to know that the type of people using and loving your product today are representative of the next hundred, the next thousand, the next ten thousand, the next hundred thousand people who are going to use your product?

You can, like, have this insane drive to get what you want and be nice to people. You can have an insane drive to get what you want and not fuck people over.