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Barry Diller

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
The only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.
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Products Succeed Way
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
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
Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.
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Being Done Done Twenties
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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Ability Air Signals
I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
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Believe Law Natural
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
Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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Creative Different Internet
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
We’re in a world now where it’s not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.
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Enough Smart World
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
If you have too many epiphanies, you’re on some kind of drug.
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Drug Epiphany Kind
I don’t want to set the world up for surprises.
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Surprise Want World
People have paid for content. They always have.
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Always Content Paid People

Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.

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