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I never thought I was a very good manager.

Barry Diller

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.
BARRY DILLER

Being Done Done Twenties
I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
BARRY DILLER

Conduct Service Smallness
Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
BARRY DILLER

Dumb Feet Progression
No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
BARRY DILLER

Economic Issues Models Solve
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
All forms of commerce are adversarial.
BARRY DILLER

Adversarial Commerce Form
The only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.
BARRY DILLER

Products Succeed Way
Hollywood is a community that’s so inbred, it’s a wonder the children have any teeth.
BARRY DILLER

Children Community Hollywood
We’re in a world now where it’s not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.
BARRY DILLER

Enough Smart World
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
BARRY DILLER

Ability Air Signals
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.
BARRY DILLER

Buttons Ideas Miracle
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.
BARRY DILLER

Anything Right Sure Want
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
This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
BARRY DILLER

Pain Reality World
Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
BARRY DILLER

Artist Ticketmaster Tickets

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