Top 48 Quotes by Barry Diller

About Barry Diller

These are some quotes by American author Barry Diller Businessman, who was born on February 2, 1942.

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.

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.

Barry Diller

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

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

Barry Diller

What I've learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.

What I've learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.

Barry Diller

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.

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.

Barry Diller

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.

Barry Diller

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

Barry Diller

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

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

Barry Diller

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.

Barry Diller

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.

Barry Diller

I've always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.

I've always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.

Barry Diller

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