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I don’t want to set the world up for surprises.

Barry Diller

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

Focus Purpose Years
People have paid for content. They always have.
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Always Content Paid People
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
We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.
BARRY DILLER

Able Vision Want
Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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Artist Ticketmaster Tickets
I don’t want to set the world up for surprises.
BARRY DILLER

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

Great Opportunity Said Somebody
I never thought I was a very good manager.
BARRY DILLER

Good Man Manager
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
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.
BARRY DILLER

Opinion People World
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’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
BARRY DILLER

Conduct Service Smallness
The only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.
BARRY DILLER

Products Succeed Way
This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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Pain Reality World
We’re in a world now where it’s not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.
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Enough Smart World
I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
BARRY DILLER

Believe Law Natural

I don’t want to set the world up for surprises.

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