Quotes by Barry Diller

About Barry Diller:

Barry Charles Diller is an American businessman, who currently serves as the Chairman and Senior Executive of IAC/InterActiveCorp and Expedia, Inc. and the media executive responsible for the creation of Fox Broadcasting Company and USA Broadcasting. Diller is a member of the Television Hall of Fame, having been inducted in 1994.
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What I've learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.

Barry Diller

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

Barry Diller

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.

Barry Diller

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

Barry Diller

Companies like GE and Procter & Gamble have been in business for a long time. Over decades or a century you're bound to figure out a management structure that works.

Barry Diller

The business model for content is to be paid for it. You can be paid for it either though advertising or subscriptions or some new invention, but right now what we've got is advertising revenue and subscription revenue as the only way to be paid for ...

Barry Diller

Facebook's the real deal. Nobody can buy Facebook now. Everybody has taken an angle at it. But Facebook may be the place that organizes everybody's personal information. It's got a very good chance of being that.

Barry Diller

Aereo is the first potentially transformative technology that has the chance to give people access to broadcast television delivered over the Internet to any device, large or small, they desire. No wires, no new boxes or remotes, portable everywhere ...

Barry Diller

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

Barry Diller

I never thought I was a very good manager.

Barry Diller

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

Barry Diller

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

Barry Diller

Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes steadily shrink.

Barry Diller

The directories businesses still make nothing but money. They're overleveraged, they're bankrupt entities, but they still are the largest. This is all going to move online over time. Why Citysearch and Service Magic are so important to us, is because...

Barry Diller

What we need to do is replace the entire tax code. I do not think it makes sense to say, 'Let's just grab money from, quote, the wealthy'... The issue is the tax code's rotten and we should start truly over with a simple code that is fair and transpa...

Barry Diller

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

Barry Diller

The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.

Barry Diller

I'm just saying if you want to reach large audiences, then rely on professionals, meaning people who are in the industry and are trained for it, rather than just idiot savants.

Barry Diller

If we're going to talk about our businesses, we're going to have to talk about them within the constraints of the disclosure rules, without giving guidance, because we're not going to give guidance, because we don't believe that it is a sensible game...

Barry Diller

If you're going to run a public company, be absolutely certain of what the parameters are, what the clarity is, that you can explain it to yourselves and explain it externally.

Barry Diller

Author Bio

  • NameBarry Diller
  • DescriptionAmerican businessman
  • BornFebruary 2, 1942
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionEntrepreneur