Barry Diller Quotes

I have contrarian tendencies.

I mean, I'm not a contrarian.

I think if I'm controversial it's not because I set out to be. It's because I've never felt comfortable being part of someone else's mainstream community.

I like being unconventional.

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

I don't follow what everybody else does.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

Nobody's going to tell me how to be different, so stop asking me. Stop asking me what two-plus-two is. Everybody knows two-plus-two is five.

Since I'm a contrarian, I don't want to go along with what everyone else thinks.

When everybody goes left, I'm gonna go right most of the time.

It's definitely an intrinsic part of my makeup that makes me want to see black when everyone else is seeing white.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

I've never been one to just do what I'm told. I don't say that necessarily with pride, it's just something that has gotten me in trouble before.

Throughout my entire life, I constantly tried to fight normality. I hate it. I hate the idea of it. I hate routine. I hate anything that feels remotely regular or right.

You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.

I don't want to follow the herd.

If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school.

Whatever is conventional, I am the opposite. So if you want to walk in a straight line, I am going to walk in zigzags. If you want to throw a 1-2, I'll throw a 2-1.

Only dead fish go with the flow.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

It's important to be unconventional.

I haven't got a problem with sheeple calling me crazy. What's sane? What is crazy?

If all the people do the same, I don't want to do it. I want to be on the other side.

We not trying to do what everybody else is doing.

I was always a contrarian.