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Barry Diller Biography

Barry Charles Diller (born February 2, 1942) is an American businessman. He is Chairman and Senior Executive of IAC/InterActiveCorp and Expedia, Inc. and created the 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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If you have too many epiphanies, you're on some kind of drug.

Drug, Epiphanies, Epiphany, Kind

Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.

Feet, Dumb, Progression, Front, Foot

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

Economic, Economic Models, Issues, Model, Solve

You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.

Trying, Want, Advertising, Internet, Headache

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

Conducted, Life, Service, Smallness

We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.

Vision, Want, Able, Time, Sell, Anywhere

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

Ability, Air, Right, Signal, Signals

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

Pain, Painful, Reality, World

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

Children, Community, Hollywood, Teeth, Wonder

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.

People, World, Opinion, Internet

I never thought I was a very good manager.

Good, Good Man, Good Manager, Manager, Thought, Very Good

The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.

Business, Entertainment, Idea, Ideas, Years

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

Transition, Firsts, Publishing, Businesses, Like

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.

Real, Taken, May, Information, Nobody, Angle

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

Creative, Different, Internet, Methodology, Destruction, Potential

People have paid for content. They always have.

Content, Paid, People

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.

Envision, Rooms, Running, Services, World

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.

Give, Hoping, Night, People, See, Two

It's not that you don't want to earn as much money as you can - it is your obligation, of course - but companies have obligations beyond that and they certainly have obligations beyond that at certain times, in the times in which they operate. And they also certainly ought to know that meeting and beating expectations is probably yesterday's game and it will be increasingly so, which would be by the way very healthy for companies. Running a company that meets and beats expectations, and that runs their company accordingly, are companies that I would question why anyone would invest in.

Companies, Games, Meets, Ought, Running, Yesterday

We're in a world now where it's not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.

Smart, World, Enough, Curious

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