Barry Diller

Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important…

— Barry Diller

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

— Barry Diller

I don't have answers for anybody else. What I know is that internal complexity makes for superficiality. There's never essentially a pure…

— 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…

— Barry Diller

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

— 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…

— Barry Diller

The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and…

— Barry Diller

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

— Barry Diller

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

— Barry Diller

What's happened to broadcasting is that broadcasting really used to be... it used to have a very clear public service quotient. And…

— Barry Diller

The idea of a company that's earning money, not losing money, that's not, let's say 'industrially endangered,' to have just cutbacks so…

— Barry Diller

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

— Barry Diller

Broadcasting began, essentially, in the hands of very, very few players - actually two - and when television came along, there were…

— 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…

— Barry Diller

People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.

— 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…

— Barry Diller

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

— Barry Diller

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

— Barry Diller

I am a contrarian.

— Barry Diller

If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price…

— Barry Diller

Who ever knows what will happen with the economy, and will it affect the Internet? There's so much pouring into the Internet;…

— Barry Diller

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

— Barry Diller

We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and…

— Barry Diller

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

— 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…

— Barry Diller