Barry Diller Quotes

Online shopping makes everything so much easier - it's a bad habit of mine.

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.

A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.

The escalator seems to me to typify this: It leads us up, by climbing on our behalf. Yes, it doesn't even climb, it flies. Each step carries its shopper aloft, as though afraid he might change his mind. It takes us up to merchandise we might not have bothered to climb an ordinary flight of steps for.

I find supermarkets fascinating places. It's extraordinary, you can buy anything there.

There is no doubt that online shopping has fed the craze for speed, because when you can't touch the fabric or try on the outfit, the only emotion you experience is the excitement of the purchase and the thrill of beating everyone else to it.

Every year we are greeted by a host of new apps that will 'change the way we think' about ordering takeout, 'fundamentally transform' our shoe purchases, or 'revolutionize' the way we edit photos.

Instant access to anything is the future. So if you need a tutor or a baby sitter or a massage or any service, it's going to be instantly available, 24 hours a day, through your phone, with one click.

Average Americans order nonfat decaf iced vanilla lattes at Starbucks and choose from 1,500 drawer pulls at The Great Indoors. Amazon gives every town a bookstore with 2 million titles, while Netflix promises 35,000 different movies on DVD. Choice is everywhere - liberating to some, but to others, a new source of stress.

Research we've done seems to indicate that people who are on the Net like the idea that they don't have to leave what they are reading to go buy something.

I like to shop. That's what I do. Online shopping; any kind of shopping.

Advertising moves people toward goods; merchandising moves goods toward people.

If you are already familiar with a brand, buying online is fast, convenient, and probably the way forward.

I envision a day when a businesswoman will be having lunch, and then her phone will ring. When she opens it up, she will see an image of the latest Marc Jacobs coat that just arrived in stock. With a click of a button, she can purchase it and then find it waiting for her when she gets back to her office.

It feels so weird to be able to just kind of buy things when I want them or need them.

Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.

I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that.

I'm an online shopper, so that's what I do in my free time. A lot of online shopping, and I just like to see new styles and new people.

I love Amazon.

There's a reason why VOD is so popular. You don't have to wait. There's instant gratification.

The ability for somebody to put their arm out and get a taxi is fundamentally different then having a 10-minute pickup time. It just is.

I think Amazon has been great for readers.

It has to be convenient. You have to be able to bank with me anytime.

I don't have a problem to say I am a good merchandiser, because I love objects.

Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from home at any hour of the day or night - is a real one, and one that was impossible before there was an Internet.