Barry Diller

And I think when you do too many things, you know, you see people whose naked ambition is so structured and so people who say, well, I need to go out and network.

And I hear that and I think, oh, you fools.

I mean, what are you talking about?

You don't really need to do that.

It's this kind of pro forma thinking.

of the things you should do, the steps you should take.

It really is far more naturalistic than that.

At one point, one of the things of progress in that mailroom environment is you work on an agent's desk as his assistant secretary at that time, but assistant.

I was very lucky that the person, my second time I did it, was for someone who

did take an interest in me and was kind of the first person where I could see, you know, I know what I'm doing for him and I know how effective I am for him.

By the way, it's not like he ever said it to me particularly, but I could feel it and know it.

And that he had confidence in me gave me the imagery of confidence in myself.

And that was probably the first time.

So he believed in you more than you believed in yourself.

Well, I had no belief in myself.

So, I mean, and I'm not exaggerating this just for whatever, for drama purposes, but I didn't have any belief in myself.

But I don't even know if I now have much belief in myself.

I know how absurd that probably is to say, but I can only reflect on my own dim inner rings.

I think that there's no doubt that...

His confidence in me spurred me on, for sure.