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Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.

Barry Diller

If you have too many epiphanies, you’re on some kind of drug.
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Drug Epiphany Kind
I never thought I was a very good manager.
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Good Man Manager
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
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 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 entertainment business hasn’t had a new idea in years.
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Entertainment Ideas Years
I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.
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Believe Internet Promise
All forms of commerce are adversarial.
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Adversarial Commerce Form
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 only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.
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Products Succeed Way
Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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Artist Ticketmaster Tickets
Hollywood is a community that’s so inbred, it’s a wonder the children have any teeth.
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Children Community Hollywood
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
You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.
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Advertising Trying Want
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
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

Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.

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