Barry Diller

“I am a contrarian.”

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

“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.”

“I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“People have paid for content. They always have.”

“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.”

“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.”