Quotes from Barry Diller

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.

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

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.

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

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

People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.

No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.

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

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.

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

What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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