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Barry Diller [1942-0] American

Rank: 102
Businessman, Chairman of IAC

Barry Charles Diller is 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.

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Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.		101
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.		102
I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.		103
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.		104
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.		105
You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.		106
This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.		107
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.		108
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.		109
What I've learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.		110
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.		111
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.		112
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.		113
What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.		114
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.		115
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.		116
Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.		117
No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.		118
I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.		119
Hollywood is a community that's so inbred, it's a wonder the children have any teeth.		120
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.		121
I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.		122
I never thought I was a very good manager.		123
Aereo is the first potentially transformative technology that has the chance to give people access to broadcast television delivered over the Internet to any device, large or small, they desire. No wires, no new boxes or remotes, portable everywhere there's an Internet connection in the world - truly a revolutionary product.		124
We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.		125
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.		126
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.		201
The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.		202
People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.		203
We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.		204
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.		205
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.		206
I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.		207
I am a contrarian.		208
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.		209
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.		210
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.		211
Broadcasting began, essentially, in the hands of very, very few players - actually two - and when television came along, there were two networks, then three. Rules began to get formulated that essentially protected that concentrated group.		212
Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.		213
Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.		214
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.		215
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.		216
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.		217
I don't want to set the world up for surprises.		218
I've always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.		219
The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.		220
People have paid for content. They always have.		221
If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.		222

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