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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

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

Children Community Hollywood
All forms of commerce are adversarial.
BARRY DILLER

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

Great Opportunity Said Somebody
I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
BARRY DILLER

Conduct Service Smallness
Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
BARRY DILLER

Artist Ticketmaster Tickets
Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
BARRY DILLER

Creative Different Internet
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.
BARRY DILLER

Rooms Running World
The entertainment business hasn’t had a new idea in years.
BARRY DILLER

Entertainment Ideas 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
If you have too many epiphanies, you’re on some kind of drug.
BARRY DILLER

Drug Epiphany Kind
The only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.
BARRY DILLER

Products Succeed Way
I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
BARRY DILLER

Believe Law Natural
People have paid for content. They always have.
BARRY DILLER

Always Content Paid People
You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.
BARRY DILLER

Advertising Trying 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

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

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