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Barry Diller

Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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Creative Different Internet
Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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Artist Ticketmaster Tickets
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
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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Ability Air Signals
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.
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Focus Purpose Years
I don’t want to set the world up for surprises.
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Surprise Want World
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
I never thought I was a very good manager.
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Good Man Manager
This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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Pain Reality World
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
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
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
You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.
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Advertising Trying Want
The entertainment business hasn’t had a new idea in years.
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Entertainment Ideas Years
All forms of commerce are adversarial.
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Adversarial Commerce Form

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