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I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

Barry Diller

I don’t want to set the world up for surprises.
BARRY DILLER

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

Focus Purpose Years
We need an unambiguous rule – a law – that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
BARRY DILLER

Law Needs Steps
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
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.
BARRY DILLER

Night Obvious People Screw Two
We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.
BARRY DILLER

Able Vision Want
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
I never thought I was a very good manager.
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Good Man Manager
Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
BARRY DILLER

Dumb Feet Progression
Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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Artist Ticketmaster Tickets
The only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.
BARRY DILLER

Products Succeed Way
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
No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
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Economic Issues Models Solve
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
All forms of commerce are adversarial.
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Adversarial Commerce Form
I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
BARRY DILLER

Believe Law Natural

I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

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