Barry Diller Quotes

If you look at the numbers from 2002 to 2016, we have consistently been market leaders. We have followed a well-articulated strategy, and our focus is to continue that strategy.

Taking risks and being focused, sometimes, are at odds. Both are required to build a great company.

It is incredibly important to set goals for your business, as if you have no direction for your business, your online business will be a failure.

All good entrepreneurs have to start somewhere with a dedicated plan to finish in a great place.

If you have a clear goal and a plan to achieve it, your focus is fixed on a set course of action. Instead of becoming sidetracked by distractions and diversions, your time is focused on a straight line from start to finish.

There's no formula for success in this business. You just do the best you can.

If we look at pricing holistically, we'll create a more solid business.

I think that business book reporting, it's all Jim Collins, it's the story of victory; it's success bias over and over again.

Most businesses fail because they want the right things but measure the wrong things, and they get the wrong results.

An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.

The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side.

You can't go into business thinking that success will come to you in just one or two years.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

We're trying to put ourselves in the best position to win, period, if not this year, next year.

Our ultimate goal is to stay in business. We are not here with a specific plan. That's kind of how our entire career has evolved. We will figure things out as we go along.

A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

We don't look at what happens in our business in six-month periods.

I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business.

In business, staying focused requires that you turn most opportunities down.

Companies that get confused, that think their goal is revenue or stock price or something. You have to focus on the things that lead to those.

My advice to fledgling entrepreneurs is always the same: build a company that you plan to be with for the next 10 years - that is the best way to increase your chances of success.

Many business leaders are seeing the relationship between long term success and sustainability, and that's very heartening.

In every aspect of life, have a game plan, and then do your best to achieve it.

There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don't like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don't spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities.

Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed.