Words matter. These are the best Barry Diller Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
What’s happened to broadcasting is that broadcasting really used to be… it used to have a very clear public service quotient. And it’s more or less now. And it’s been lost.
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.
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.
No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
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.
I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.
Urbanspoon is a nice, little application and it’s perfect, of course, for CitySearch because of the reviews it contains and the ability for CitySearch to use that content.
I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
I never thought I was a very good manager.
You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.
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.
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 without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.
We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.
Hollywood is a community that’s so inbred, it’s a wonder the children have any teeth.
What we need to do is replace the entire tax code. I do not think it makes sense to say, ‘Let’s just grab money from, quote, the wealthy’… The issue is the tax code’s rotten and we should start truly over with a simple code that is fair and transparent.
What I’ve learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.
What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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.
The only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.
We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.
People have paid for content. They always have.
The directories businesses still make nothing but money. They’re overleveraged, they’re bankrupt entities, but they still are the largest. This is all going to move online over time. Why Citysearch and Service Magic are so important to us, is because nobody has really colonized it yet completely.
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.
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.
Who ever knows what will happen with the economy, and will it affect the Internet? There’s so much pouring into the Internet; I would doubt it, but I’m not the greatest predictor. But more than any media sector, I think the Internet will hold up.
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.
I am a contrarian.
The entertainment business hasn’t had a new idea in years.
The business model for content is to be paid for it. You can be paid for it either though advertising or subscriptions or some new invention, but right now what we’ve got is advertising revenue and subscription revenue as the only way to be paid for content.
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.
People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.
