Barry Diller Quotes

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

Barry Diller

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• What we won't become is a 'Democratic Party lite!' We are a party that wants smaller government and lower taxes. Obama and the Democrats do not. We are a party that wants to encourage small business. We are a party that has a large constituent group that believes in a social agenda and we will not abandon them.

  

  Ed Rollins
  • Business
  • Small
  • Party

• You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Business
  • You
  • Know

• One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Business
  • Black
  • Girl

• Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Business
  • Like
  • Point

• The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • People
  • Art
  • Business

• I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Business
  • Look
  • Idiot

• But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Business
  • News
  • Observation

• I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • See
  • First
  • Lady

• My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles.

  

  Warren Giles
  • Baseball
  • First
  • Welfare

• I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Remember
  • First
  • Race

• What other people think of me is none of my business.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Business
  • Think

• I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Work
  • Art
  • Business

• I was pretty young, but because of that first record, 'Cole Espanol,' we took our first trip - well, my first trip - to Mexico.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Pretty
  • Young
  • First

• The Internet is the Viagra of big business.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Business
  • Internet
  • Big

• When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • People
  • Business
  • Nice

• I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Time
  • First
  • Sunday

• Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.

  

  Edith Head
  • Business
  • Ideas
  • Years

• The state of perpetual emptiness is, of course, very good for business.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Good
  • Business

• A healthy society rests on three pillars: business, government and civil society, or non-profits. Each has a distinct and important role to play, and all three need to work together synergistically to create the most value for society.

  

  John Mackey
  • Work
  • Important
  • Business

• I was an infant when I was living in Canada, but when I was adopted, I was a baby, so I grew up in Maine and Massachusetts, and I returned to Saskatchewan as - in my late teens.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Up
  • Baby

• Before 'American Idol' and all this stuff, I was obsessed with music charts, and I used to go online to find out what was popular in other countries. I'd log on to the BBC website, and that's how I found out about artists like Natasha Bedingfield, Daniel Bedingfield and Take That.

  

  David Archuleta
  • Music
  • American
  • Popular

• In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In American culture, kids in books, TV shows and movies constantly score points with their snappy back talk. Typically, it's the parents who need to be taught a life lesson - by their children.

  

  Amy Chua
  • Life
  • Children
  • Kids

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

  

  Barry Diller
  • Business
  • First
  • Transition