Barry Sternlicht Quotes

Pretty soon we will no longer have movies. We will have television series only.

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

Airbnb's genius was moving into cities and recognizing that millennials would want to go and maybe spend a vacation or visit some friends in an urban center.

Lyft Line is our biggest step in bringing down prices... We've been thinking about this ever since we launched Lyft. We always intended to do it.

Uber, like Google, is taking a highly disorganized business - in its case, private transportation such as taxicabs and private limousines - and ordering it neatly.

Straight-up digital delivery will be the way the future works.

Free downloads is something that I like to do its just not as publicised and it is the future of music.

Nowadays, performers who want to create their own material put it on the Internet. I never knew whether or not it would make an impression - and frankly, I didn't care that much about how it would be received.

My record producer [David Kahne] said the major record labels these days are like dinosaurs sitting around discussing the asteroid. They know it's going to hit. They don't know when, they don't know where it's coming from. But it's sort of hit already. With iTunes, and all of that.

The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity.

No economy, no company, in fact no individual can develop its full potential today without embracing two fundamental trends - globalization and digitalization. They will dominate for quite some time to come.

I think that music has always been restricted to media. The LP is an antiquated form, and the CD is now an antiquated form, and there's no sense grieving. Music is forever, there will always be songs. It's exciting that we're not limited to the media any more. I don't hold a precious view of my work, that it exists outside of social constructs or the confines of a platform.

I just think streaming feels like it's the future. It allows people to watch things in a way that fits into their lives.

Record labels have enjoyed a 100-year monopoly of selling plastic and now they're up against a different format.

The digital and physical worlds are starting to come together more seamlessly - it's only the tip of the iceberg in terms of what's coming.

The internet has been incredible in regards to the selling of my CD. I don't know how it's affected or will affect my acting career.

The Six Faces of the future are: Fast, Urban, Tribal, Universal, Radical and Ethical.

it is a shoe designer's job to be a year ahead of our collective unconscious.

If I book a hotel it's actually very funny. It's very nice to be a genuine Mr Smith.

When you think about Uber and Airbnb and the other companies that are turning things upside down, Uber isn't big 'cause they ran a lot of ads. They're big because someone took out their iPhone and said to their friend, watch this, and pressed a button and a car pulled up.

In the near future, we'll have games that don't depend on any platform.

I think that the revolution in music is over, and what's left is a mop-up action. It's a matter of the news getting out to everybody else. I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It's mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that. Everything is traditionally slow - much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.

What if the New York Times gave out free, cheap Kindles to everyone and said this is how we're doing it now. You know? Maybe that's a way to go. The technology gets cheaper and cheaper, and at some point it has to be cheaper than all these trucks and all this gas, to just say, let's give away a Kindle to everyone.

We've spent the last 30 years focusing on the T in IT, and we'll spend the next 30 years focusing on the I.

If you look at cable networks, they almost always start licensing content wherever they can, so they can build a subscriber base. But then they start doing their own content; it's a pretty well-trodden path.