Barry Diller is 84 and says he has no plans to retire: 'I have a motor inside me.'
Source: Business Insider ·
Barry Diller doesn't want to stop running companies like People Inc., saying he has a "motor inside" that can't stop.
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Barry Diller says he has a motor that doesn't quit, and that retirement isn't on the table.Carl Timpone/ BFABarry Diller isn't ready to slow down.The 84-year-old media and tech exec says he wants to keep working as long as he can be engaged and useful.Diller says he isn't focused on his legacy. He says it's "boring" to look backward.He may have run Paramount, built the Fox television network, and just pulled a buyout offer for MGM Resorts, but media and tech executive Barry Diller says he's not done yet.He has a "motor inside" that just won't stop, Diller said Thursday at Business Insider's The Long Play in New York."I'm still curious," he told Peter Kafka, BI's chief correspondent. "If I can be engaged and hopefully be useful, then OK.""At some point, someone will tell me in some masterful way, either it's over or, in another way, it will be over," he said, alluding to the final bow. "I will either pay attention, or not, and they will drag me out to the heap."Follow along with our…