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The entertainment business hasn’t had a new idea in years.

Barry Diller

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

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

Focus Purpose Years
Hollywood is a community that’s so inbred, it’s a wonder the children have any teeth.
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Children Community Hollywood
People have paid for content. They always have.
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Always Content Paid People
The entertainment business hasn’t had a new idea in years.
BARRY DILLER

Entertainment Ideas Years
We need an unambiguous rule – a law – that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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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
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.
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Anything Right Sure Want
No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
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Economic Issues Models Solve
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.
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May Real Taken
You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.
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Advertising Trying Want
Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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Creative Different Internet
We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.
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Able Vision Want
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
I’ve always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.
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Great Opportunity Said Somebody
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
BARRY DILLER

Ability Air Signals

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