Barry Diller
Barry Diller
Barry Charles Dilleris 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...
believe law natural
I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
thinking years ideas
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 another $12 million or $20 million or $40 million in a year where no one's counting is really a horrible act when you think about it on every level. First of all, it's certainly not necessary. It's doing it at the worst time. It's throwing people out to a larger, what is inevitably a larger unemployment heap for frankly no good reason.
people world opinion
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.
issues economic-models solve
No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
want be-you
I'm never absolutely sure of anything, and I don't want to be. You're either right and you'll pull through, or you're not. We're never going to be right about everything, and we've certainly been wrong.
drug kind epiphany
If you have too many epiphanies, you're on some kind of drug.
form commerce
All forms of commerce are adversarial.
ideas miracle world
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.
law steps needs
We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
artist tickets doe
Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
succeed way products
The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.
ideas years entertainment
The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.
done twenties being-done
Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.
people paid
People have paid for content. They always have.