Barry Diller Quotes

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• This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
• 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…
• 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…
• I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
• It's not that you don't want to earn as much money as you can - it is your obligation, of course - but companies have…
• 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 they can earn…
• You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.
• Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
• 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…
• 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 don't want to set the world up for surprises.
• I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
• I never thought I was a very good manager.
• I've always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.
• I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
• 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…
• No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
• Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
• People have paid for content. They always have.

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