Barry Diller

I mean, I was basically staying up nights and sleeping most days.

And

I thought, well, you know, I would like to learn about the entertainment business.

And I thought there are these talent agencies, William Morris, probably at that time, the most famous number one agency.

And they had a mailroom where they...

so to speak, train people to be agents.

I didn't want to be an agent.

I thought I'd never be an agent.

That was ridiculous.

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...