I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
BARRY DILLERThe entertainment business hasn’t had a new idea in years.
More Barry Diller Quotes
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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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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 want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.
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People have paid for content. They always have.
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Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
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I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
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I’m never absolutely sure of anything, and I don’t want to be. You’re either right and you’ll pull through, or you’re not. We’re never going to be right about everything, and we’ve certainly been wrong.
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I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
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I’ve always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.
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I never thought I was a very good manager.
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The only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.
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We need an unambiguous rule – a law – that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.
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Hollywood is a community that’s so inbred, it’s a wonder the children have any teeth.
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