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Barry Diller

If you have too many epiphanies, you’re on some kind of drug.
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Drug Epiphany Kind
I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
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Believe Law Natural
No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
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Economic Issues Models Solve
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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May Real Taken
Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
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Dumb Feet Progression
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
You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.
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Advertising Trying Want
I’ve always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.
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Great Opportunity Said Somebody
I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
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Firsts Publishing Transition
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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Ability Air Signals
We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.
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Able Vision Want
People have paid for content. They always have.
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Always Content Paid People
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
Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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Creative Different Internet
All forms of commerce are adversarial.
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Adversarial Commerce Form
The only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.
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Products Succeed Way

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