Barry Diller

And there's nothing you can't hide.

That's the...

The thing that I will always love about that world is you're out there with whatever you've made, you've put together, whatever role you played in it.

And there's no hiding.

If you are in the work of making things, content, you're going to have a good amount of failure.

It's not possible otherwise.

Now, I've been lucky.

I won't say it's luck.

That isn't luck.

But I've had enough successes to balance the failures and probably have had a better average, let's call it,

of that.

But every failure in some way ought to teach you something.

And success teaches you nothing.

The most important thing and the thing that I've been reminded of continuously is to keep scrubbing my instincts clean as it were.

Every time I've made a decision out of cynicism, I wouldn't say every time because sometimes probably it does work, but there's a continual theme of cynical decision-making that is poor.

So being naive, not being cynical,

Being able to not let life experience, so to speak, infect your basic instinct, your ability to know a good idea from a bad idea.

That has been, if anything, the thing that constantly I've had to work at.

Because as you gain experience, the natural tendency is to be cynical or is to be sophisticated.

is to know things.