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Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

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
All forms of commerce are adversarial.
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Adversarial Commerce Form
The entertainment business hasn’t had a new idea in years.
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Entertainment Ideas 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
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
We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.
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Able Vision Want
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
I’ve always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.
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Great Opportunity Said Somebody
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
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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Ability Air Signals
You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.
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Advertising Trying Want
No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
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Economic Issues Models Solve
People have paid for content. They always have.
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Always Content Paid People
Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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Artist Ticketmaster Tickets
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
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
Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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Creative Different Internet
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
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 still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
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Believe Law Natural
I never thought I was a very good manager.
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Good Man Manager
Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
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Dumb Feet Progression
I don’t want to set the world up for surprises.
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Surprise Want World
I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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Conduct Service Smallness
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
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
This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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Pain Reality World

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