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The entertainment business hasn’t had a new idea in years.

Barry Diller

Hollywood is a community that’s so inbred, it’s a wonder the children have any teeth.
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Children Community Hollywood
I don’t want to set the world up for surprises.
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Surprise Want World
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
I never thought I was a very good manager.
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Good Man Manager
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
No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
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Economic Issues Models Solve
I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
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Believe Law Natural
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
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
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
Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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Creative Different Internet
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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Being Done Done Twenties
This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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Pain Reality World
The only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.
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Products Succeed Way
Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
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Dumb Feet Progression
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

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