The ability to reverse quickly as an entrepreneur is key. - Marc Randolph

The main thing I’ve learned in 40-plus years as an entrepreneur is that nobody knows anything.

Nobody knows if your idea is good or bad. You don’t know if it’s good or bad. You need to test your idea, trial it, collide it with reality.

That’s the only way to learn.

At Netflix, I had a rule that drove people crazy: every person who came in for an interview should leave dying to work there—even if we knew in the first five minutes we weren't going to hire them.

Because that 'wrong candidate' is going to tell everyone they know about their experience.

And you never know which of those future conversations will matter.

A lot of people spend decades pushing, pushing, pushing with the idea that they will “make up for it someday”, only to wake up one day wondering where their life went.