Barry Diller Quotes

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 there's an Internet connection in the world - truly a revolutionary product.
Barry Diller

Technology, Give, Small

Broadcasting began, essentially, in the hands of very, very few players - actually two - and when television came along, there were two networks, then three. Rules began to get formulated that essentially protected that concentrated group.
Barry Diller

Two, Few, Group

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

Time, Business, Long

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

Good, Real, May

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

Children, Community, Wonder

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

Free, Days, System

I am a contrarian.
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 story unless there's a pure product line that has its own shining clarity.
Barry Diller

Else, Makes, Story

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

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

Business, Transition, Publishing

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

Good, Thought, Manager

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

Law, Call, Natural

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

Saying, Idiot, Rather

I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me.
Barry Diller

Daily, Mean, Sure

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

Great, Said, Somebody

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

Life, Service, Conducted

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 to play.
Barry Diller

Game, Giving, Give

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

Public, Run, Clarity

If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
Barry Diller

Somebody, Wants, Price

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

Young, Put, Opinion

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

Music, Business, Future

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

Economic, Issue, Model

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

Different, Creative, Along

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

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

Emotional, Truly, Included

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Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: February 2, 1942

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