Barry Diller Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

Zitat des Tages von Barry Diller:

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

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

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

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

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.

Barry Diller

I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.

Barry Diller

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

Barry Diller

We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.

Barry Diller

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.

Barry Diller

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.

Barry Diller

I never thought I was a very good manager.

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

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

Barry Diller

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.

Barry Diller

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.

Barry Diller

I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

Barry Diller

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

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

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.

Barry Diller

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

Barry Diller

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.

Barry Diller

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.

Barry Diller

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

Barry Diller

The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.

Barry Diller