Jeffrey Bewkes Quotes

I'm not one of those people who hates Amazon because they're big. Why pay a third more for the same thing?

I think that a lot of companies are still amazingly price sensitive.

You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.

Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.

From France, you can call anywhere in the world for free. Americans can't do that!

Theatre's still expensive compared to downloading on Netflix; that has to be addressed. It doesn't mean it has to be over-subsidised by the state, but it's something we're trying to figure out.

If you can make a lot more of something, you can make it much more inexpensive.

The pitch that works best in tough economic times is, 'I can do that for less.'

Thanks to Netflix and Hulu, people are getting more and more used to consuming longer stretches of content on their televisions or computer screens.

It's important to offer well-thought-out pieces at lower prices.

I don't really think about film or television or going directly to the internet. I just think about doing something that people are going to get excited about.

Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records?

A package of 35 improvements to typical industrial motor systems can save around 50% of their metered energy…with a simple payback under 16 months.

By electrifying our lives, we reduce our energy costs by 39 percent, which is a huge savings in itself.

Buying something on sale is a very special feeling. In fact, the less I pay for something, the more it is worth to me.

The good thing about me is I just don't shop high-end.

The internet has surrounded television and turned television into an art form.

People will buy the car just because it's a great car. We want them to think it's excellent value for money and then, oh yeah, it happens to be electric.

I started using the Internet in 1999. That was pretty late. But as soon as I did I just stopped watching TV. The idea of sitting down and waiting for a TV show at a certain time, I couldn't do this anymore. The Internet is a better form of entertainment to me.

Of course we don't want the price of gasoline to go up, we want it to go down.

The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.

I think Hollywood, as it's been, will have to change because the model of Hollywood is "we'll make this content, and you guys buy it," but I don't think that's the future.

All I want to do, if you've already got health care, is lower your costs.

I love my iPad. I'll see television shows that I have missed and I'll download them through iTunes. If there is an older movie that I want to watch right away, I can download that movie and watch it.

Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?