Barry Diller

We had a very successful movie company, et cetera, et cetera.

But it wasn't mine.

And I thought, well...

What am I going to do about that?

And I came up with this thing in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain, which was either you are or you're not.

It's binary.

And you can do what most executives do, which is you rationalize and you live a pretty good life.

So you rationalize your situation or you just say, well, this is what it is.

You don't have any yearn to be independent or on your own.

I did.

And I knew that that was binary, and it just kept at me.

It wasn't that I was afraid.

It was I didn't want to confront the very binariness of it because on the other side of not being a corporatist or being on your own or being independent or wanting to build something yourself is that you are very far away from the Mother Church.

You really are on your own.

and while it didn't frighten me it was like such a different solar system that i couldn't even conceive of it other than in these terms of you are you're not and i couldn't accept that i was not and that's that's what got me out it was my inability to accept that and so i left fox and

I believe in risk and reward, and I believe if you take risks and if you're doing any valuable work, you're going to be taking risks.

If it works out...

The rewards should be there.

And we now and always have, hope always will, compensate people accordingly.

People can't gain wealth in the enterprises that I'm involved in.