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

Barry Diller

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

Artist Ticketmaster Tickets
Hollywood is a community that’s so inbred, it’s a wonder the children have any teeth.
BARRY DILLER

Children Community Hollywood
All forms of commerce are adversarial.
BARRY DILLER

Adversarial Commerce Form
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.
BARRY DILLER

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

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

Enough Smart World
Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
BARRY DILLER

Creative Different Internet
We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.
BARRY DILLER

Able Vision Want
You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.
BARRY DILLER

Advertising Trying Want
We need an unambiguous rule – a law – that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
BARRY DILLER

Law Needs Steps
The only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.
BARRY DILLER

Products Succeed Way
I never thought I was a very good manager.
BARRY DILLER

Good Man Manager
Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
BARRY DILLER

Dumb Feet Progression
If you have too many epiphanies, you’re on some kind of drug.
BARRY DILLER

Drug Epiphany Kind

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