Barry Diller

Talk about if you don't have a sense of self, how can you represent others?

How can you ever have the confidence to go sell somebody that you're going to take care of their lives?

but I thought I could go and learn.

And I essentially went there, and at that time, there were big file rooms, paper file rooms, and I read the entire file room.

And they had had the history of the entertainment business for 70 years.

And so what incredible luck for someone who wanted to learn stuff.

And I did.

I was insatiable about learning.

And that...

literally from one day to the next, lit a fire of ambition and purposefulness.

I was really lucky because...

All the people who were in the mailroom, they just wanted to get to be agents, since I didn't want to be an agent.

I took the job no one else wanted.

They all wanted to go, and that horrible word, network around, meet people, press people, do whatever.

I went to the dungeon and had this job that allowed me basically almost the entire day to read.

And that's what I did for three years until I think they were on the verge of throwing me out.

And you've got to go do step, step, step, step to get there.

There are roles like that.

But if you have a specific craft or something, you can name that craft as a goal and train for it or do whatever you have to do for it.

I've never had any goals.