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This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.

Barry Diller

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

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

Economic Issues Models Solve
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.
BARRY DILLER

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

Focus Purpose Years
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
You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.
BARRY DILLER

Advertising Trying Want
I never thought I was a very good manager.
BARRY DILLER

Good Man Manager
The only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.
BARRY DILLER

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

Great Opportunity Said Somebody
I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
BARRY DILLER

Firsts Publishing Transition
People have paid for content. They always have.
BARRY DILLER

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

Children Community Hollywood
Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
BARRY DILLER

Artist Ticketmaster Tickets
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

This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.

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