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I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.

Barry Diller

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
I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
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Believe Law Natural
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
This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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Pain Reality World
Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
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Dumb Feet Progression
No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
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Economic Issues Models Solve
Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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Creative Different Internet
I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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Conduct Service Smallness
You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.
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Advertising Trying Want
People have paid for content. They always have.
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Always Content Paid People
We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.
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Able Vision Want
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
I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.
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Believe Internet Promise
I never thought I was a very good manager.
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Good Man Manager
All forms of commerce are adversarial.
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Adversarial Commerce Form
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

I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.

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