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...
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Results for the quarter and year are better than good; superb execution is the reason.
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What I've learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.
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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.
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The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.
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While we fully expect continued strength in our operations going forward, course correcting adaptations are vital to the execution of a focused agenda,
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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.
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Terry's a thoughtful, intelligent man and he did not take his media imperialist roots to Sunnyvale. And that's what got him on the road to fluency, which he's mastered. That's some feat for an old-media dog, speaking as one who could be similarly described.
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I can't imagine that there'll be any disruption of any kind, in any area, on any level or in any particular. It just simply seems to me actually impossible.
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He recently told me he felt he had completed the (organization plan) and wanted at some soon point to move on to a company he could really run. This is entirely amicable with no precise end date and he and the other key members of the company know he has my complete and continued support in whatever he decides to do.
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We're ready to compete. We're very serious about this. Search evolves. We have a product that I think is part of that.
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We are all prepared to meet with the special committee and its legal and financial advisors at your earliest convenience,
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I never thought I was a very good manager.
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I've always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.
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We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.