Quotes by Barry Diller

Barry Diller

American businessman

Alive from: 1942-

Category: Economists and businessmen

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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

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

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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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  The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.

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  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 mind.

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  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.

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  There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.

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  This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.