Oprah Winfrey
Chairwoman and CEO, Harpo Productions. On 3 shows, 1 appearance, plus 2 compilation re-airs not counted. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Oprah Winfrey is the Chairwoman and CEO of Harpo Productions and founder of the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN). She hosted The Oprah Winfrey Show for 25 years and executive produced the documentary series Belief.
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87said about them ↓ Everything Oprah Winfrey said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Oprah Winfrey: The Golden Rule runs through every world religion
“The central thread that runs through all of them is the line of compassion, treating others as the way you want to be treated. The golden rule runs through every Religion.”
Oprah: Every individual, including atheists, maintains a foundational belief system
“Every one of us, even those of us who say we're atheists, believe in something, even if you just believe in Your value system, or you believe in, you know, being a good person”
Oprah Winfrey: Individual identity depends on understanding collective cultural roots
“If you don't know who you are as a people, then you won't know who you are as a person.”
Oprah Winfrey: Pew research shows two-thirds of millennials lack belief
“According to the Pew studies, there are like two-thirds of millennials who don't believe in anything.”
Oprah Winfrey: Personal Power Depends on Connection to Spiritual Source
“Your Power here on earth, your ability to be who you were meant to be, whatever you call your creator, is in direct proportion to how you are connected to the source.”
Oprah Winfrey: People Are Responsible for the Intentions Behind Their Actions
“The moment the energy goes out, that energy Can do nothing else but return. So for every action, there's an equal opposite reaction. And as we were talking in the car, beyond even the action and reaction is the intention behind the action. So you have to not j…”
Oprah Winfrey: Personal faith is distinct from institutional religion
“Faith is a very personal thing. You know, religion, there are Hundreds and hundreds of religions in the world, but how you choose to believe and what your faith is and your relationship with that which you call the higher power, your creator, God, that's your …”
Oprah says 'Belief' series was not created for ratings or financial profit
“The opportunity, ah, to offer this series to the world is, to me, it feels like literally an offering, and it's not about ratings, and it's not about, you know, trying to make a lot of money from it, or all the other things, reasons why people do television.”
Oprah Winfrey: Seeking Higher Power Defined Human Existence Since Neanderthal Times
“You see rituals that indicate that there was a belief system, and that there was there were ideas and ideals about that which was greater than themselves. And I think that to be human is to seek that in one form or another.”
The other half of the tape: Oprah Winfrey's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 78 times in 31 episodes across the shows. 9 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Guy Raz 36Lisa Price 13Ben Horowitz 6Maureen Kelly 5Jamie Cormack 4Troy Carter 2Janice Bryant Howroyd 2Chip Gaines 2
Statements about Oprah Winfrey, by other people (9)
Publicizing Oprah's endorsement early would have bankrupted UGG due to insufficient capital
“If we had announced that Oprah was wearing our shoes or boots, it would have killed the company when I owned the company, because I didn't have the capital to build the product to take on that demand.”
Jennifer Martin: Pipcorn over-indexed on seasonal gifting post-Oprah
“I think the Oprah, we sort of, like, pivoted A little bit too much to focus on, like, being an online gift, and we had to, like, swing all the way back to figure out, like, okay, well, that's seasonal, right? People love that for the holiday, but then the rest…”
Tory Burch website drew 8 million visitors following Oprah Winfrey endorsement
“She told us to back up our site. We had eight million visitors in our first, almost second year in business.”
Tyra Banks regrets rejecting a magazine empire to avoid micromanaging
“One of the top magazine companies, they came to me and wanted me to do a magazine. How Oprah has her magazine, how Martha Stewart has magazines, Rachel Ray has magazines, and they wanted me to do a magazine. I remember being in that meeting with these 12 peopl…”
Jeff Martin: Pipcorn website crashed immediately upon airing on Oprah
“They showed a pan-across shot at the market of our packaging, and when they showed the name, Pipcorn, our website crashed.”
Jeff Martin: Pipcorn generated up to $200,000 in sales following Oprah feature
“It was like close to, you know, 200,000 dollars in sales in, in a short, in a really, maybe like a 150,000 dollars of sales in a really short period of time”
Oprah named Spanx a favorite product weeks after Blakely quit her job
“I quit my job on October 16th, and Oprah called me in the beginning of November. And chose Spanx as her favorite product of the year.”
Horowitz: Producing a multi-faith documentary carries significant commercial and social risks
“It's not something that is guaranteed to have commercial success, and it's something that you know, could easily, you know, cause people not to like you, and no, I'm serious.”
Every mention by year
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How I Built This 68
the a16z Podcast 10
2026 2 mentions in 1 episode
2025 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2024 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2023 13 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2020 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2019 14 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- a16z Podcast | Your Worst Deeds Don’t Define You -- Life and Redemption in Prison
- Live From The HIBT Summit: Sara Blakely Of Spanx
- a16z Podcast | How Many Taps in the Apple (Plus) Tree?
- Serial Entrepreneur: Marcia Kilgore (2018)
- Allbirds: Tim Brown & Joey Zwillinger
- a16z Podcast | Talent, Tech Trends, and Culture -- with Ben, Marc, and Tyler Cowen
- a16z Podcast | Fintech for the People
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 14 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
2017 18 mentions in 4 episodes 5 per episode
2016 5 mentions in 1 episode
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Oprah's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| a16zLEDGER | Chairwoman and CEO, Harpo Productions | 1 | 10 | 0% 0/1 | full record on the a16z Podcast → |
| HOW I BUILT THISLEDGER | Chairwoman and CEO, Harpo Productions | 0 +1 | 0 | — | full record on How I Built This → |
 MASTERS OF SCALELEDGER | Chairwoman and CEO, Harpo Productions | 0 +1 | 0 | — | full record on Masters of Scale → |