I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.
BARRY DILLERI like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
More Barry Diller Quotes
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If you have too many epiphanies, you’re on some kind of drug.
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We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.
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I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
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All forms of commerce are adversarial.
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My opinion, young people go to the Internet. To the Internet distribution system right now, you put it up there and it’s accessed by the world.
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This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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What I’ve learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.
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Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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We’re in a world now where it’s not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.
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Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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Facebook’s the real deal. Nobody can buy Facebook now. Everybody has taken an angle at it. But Facebook may be the place that organizes everybody’s personal information. It’s got a very good chance of being that.
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People have paid for content. They always have.
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The American public tunes in every night hoping to see two people screwing. Obviously, we can’t give them that but let’s always keep it in mind.
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Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
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I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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