Barry Diller Quotes

You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.

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

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

I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.

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

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

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

I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

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.

I never thought I was a very good manager.

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

The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.

All forms of commerce are adversarial.

The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.

I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

I've always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.

No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.

People have paid for content. They always have.

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

The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.

Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.

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

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.

If you have too many epiphanies, you're on some kind of drug.

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.

This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.

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

We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.

Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.