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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 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
What I’ve learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.
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Focus Purpose Years
People have paid for content. They always have.
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Always Content Paid People
The only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.
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Products Succeed Way
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
The entertainment business hasn’t had a new idea in years.
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Entertainment Ideas Years
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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Ability Air Signals
Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
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Dumb Feet Progression
I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
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Believe Law Natural
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.
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Opinion People World
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.
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Buttons Ideas Miracle
I don’t want to set the world up for surprises.
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Surprise Want World
Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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Creative Different Internet
I never thought I was a very good manager.
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Good Man Manager
I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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Conduct Service Smallness
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

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

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