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Barry Diller

The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.
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Rooms Running World
Hollywood is a community that’s so inbred, it’s a wonder the children have any teeth.
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Children Community Hollywood
This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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Pain Reality World
You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.
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Advertising Trying Want
Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.
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Buttons Ideas Miracle
I don’t want to set the world up for surprises.
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Surprise Want World
We need an unambiguous rule – a law – that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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Law Needs Steps
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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Night Obvious People Screw Two
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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Ability Air Signals
What I’ve learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.
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Focus Purpose Years
The only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.
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Products Succeed Way
All forms of commerce are adversarial.
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Adversarial Commerce Form
We’re in a world now where it’s not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.
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Enough Smart World
I never thought I was a very good manager.
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Good Man Manager
Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
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Dumb Feet Progression
Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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Artist Ticketmaster Tickets

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