Barry Diller Quotes

 "We're in a world now where it's not enough to be smart. You have to be curious." ~ Barry Diller

"I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness." ~ Barry Diller

 "What I've learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses." ~ Barry Diller

 "Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go." ~ Barry Diller

 "The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product." ~ Barry Diller

 "You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising." ~ Barry Diller

 "I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid." ~ Barry Diller

 "We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it." ~ Barry Diller

 "Hollywood is a community that's so inbred, it's a wonder the children have any teeth." ~ Barry Diller

 "This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful." ~ Barry Diller

 "The American public tunes in every night hoping to see two people screwing. Obviously, we can't give them that but let's always keep it in mind." ~ Barry Diller

 "I never thought I was a very good manager." ~ Barry Diller

 "Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet." ~ Barry Diller

 "I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law." ~ Barry Diller

 "If you have too many epiphanies, you're on some kind of drug." ~ Barry Diller

 "I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing." ~ Barry Diller

 "Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices." ~ Barry Diller

 "We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop." ~ Barry Diller

 "The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years." ~ Barry Diller

 "Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done." ~ Barry Diller

 "People have paid for content. They always have." ~ Barry Diller

 "No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet." ~ Barry Diller

 "My opinion, young people go to the Internet. To the Internet distribution system right now, you put it up there and it's accessed by the world." ~ Barry Diller

 "I've always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody." ~ Barry Diller

 "I don't want to set the world up for surprises." ~ Barry Diller

 "The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right." ~ Barry Diller

 "Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world." ~ Barry Diller

 "All forms of commerce are adversarial." ~ Barry Diller