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I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.

Barry Diller

I’ve always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.
BARRY DILLER

Great Opportunity Said Somebody
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
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
All forms of commerce are adversarial.
BARRY DILLER

Adversarial Commerce Form
Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
BARRY DILLER

Creative Different Internet
Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
BARRY DILLER

Artist Ticketmaster Tickets
I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
BARRY DILLER

Believe Law Natural
Hollywood is a community that’s so inbred, it’s a wonder the children have any teeth.
BARRY DILLER

Children Community Hollywood
We need an unambiguous rule – a law – that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
BARRY DILLER

Law Needs Steps
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
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’re in a world now where it’s not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.
BARRY DILLER

Enough Smart World
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
No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
BARRY DILLER

Economic Issues Models Solve
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

I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.

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