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

Barry Diller

I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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Conduct Service Smallness
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
I don’t want to set the world up for surprises.
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Surprise Want World
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.
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May Real Taken
Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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Artist Ticketmaster Tickets
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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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.
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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
Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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Creative Different Internet
I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
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Believe Law Natural
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 never thought I was a very good manager.
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Good Man Manager
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
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
This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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Pain Reality World
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

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