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If you have too many epiphanies, you’re on some kind of drug.

Barry Diller

What I’ve learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.
BARRY DILLER

Focus Purpose Years
I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
BARRY DILLER

Firsts Publishing Transition
I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.
BARRY DILLER

Believe Internet Promise
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.
BARRY DILLER

May Real Taken
No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
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Economic Issues Models Solve
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
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
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
You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.
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Advertising Trying Want
I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
BARRY DILLER

Believe Law Natural
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
My opinion, young people go to the Internet. To the Internet distribution system right now, you put it up there and it’s accessed by the world.
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Opinion People World
Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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Creative Different Internet
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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Anything Right Sure Want
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

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