Henry Blodget Quotes

#1. Some things go slow, slow, slow, and then - wham! - they're over.

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#2. Television is like the movie business. It's not the least-objectionable program - it's the best program that gets positioned. Same in the movie business. It's not just everything automatically gets done by the "in" crowd.

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#3. The definition of strong leadership is not about making decisions that are popular. Making popular decisions is easy - you don't need to be a leader to do that. The definition of strong leadership is to make decisions that are unpopular, but are nevertheless sound.

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#4. In the era of networks only, I cannot tell you the number of shows that we don't know about that did not survive. They got canceled. But there are a few that survived by accident, because they didn't have anything else to do, and they stayed with it.

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#5. There's too much bad. The worst is mediocre. Bad is easy. There's high quality, there's pornography, and then there's bad.

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#6. I think the water cooler is more important than ever. "Oh, did you hear that 'Inside Amy Schumer' is fabulous?" Where do you find it? It's on Netflix, it's on iTunes, it's on places nobody ever heard of five years ago.

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#7. I'm no expert in vibrators, but I was surprised to learn that one could fit in that little box.

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#8. Everything I have is a private company. And even though a public company's a great thing, it's great for financing and all of the stuff you need to do. I'm not answering to anybody but my wife and my children and the people who work for me, and my partners.

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#9. It's very hard to be good. It is self-destructive thinking to think that there is too much good.

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#10. Television is not hurting. Television is in fantastic shape. It's just a golden age for other people.

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#11. It's all about who your team is and who your people are.

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#12. Pornography works to a degree, high quality works, bad is obvious. Nobody goes for bad. The terrible middle ground is the mediocre. That was kind of the essence, in a way, of broadcast television when there were only three channels.

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#13. The content defines the platform, so whereas when I was working at ABC from '66 to '76, people said it was the "great wasteland." It was the least-objectionable program that succeeded. It was, if you could get behind "All in the Family," you were successful.

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#14. Almost any show that has reviewers behind it, Rotten Tomatoes behind it, will find a way to survive.

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#15. Some people have made a fortune by being employed. Jerry Bruckheimer does not own his content. Warner Bros. owns his shows. They are on CBS, and he makes a fortune.

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#16. [T]here's a difference between confident leadership and empty-headed delusion or cheerleading. And this is a difference that many CEOs miss.

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#17. People don't have to go to cable news or network news. Live sports is the one of many things that's kind of community television. There are a lot of people who still tune in to "Sunday Night Football" or "Thursday Night Football" the way they did before.

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#18. The first reaction is, get defensive. Second reaction is, what are we going to do about it?

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#19. People have been predicting the death of television for 20 years now, and so far it's been entirely wrong. But it does seem viewership habits are starting to change.

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#20. Digital advertising is now larger than TV.

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#21. When television came in, everybody thought that was the end of the movie business, which was not and is not.

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#22. The tech folks have seen WiFi as the way to untether. And what better reason to untether than entertainment content? So there's nobody better positioned than the in-home Wi-Fi purveyor.

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