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 DILLERThe 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.
More Barry Diller Quotes
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Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
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No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
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We need an unambiguous rule – a law – that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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If you have too many epiphanies, you’re on some kind of drug.
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This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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The entertainment business hasn’t had a new idea in years.
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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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Hollywood is a community that’s so inbred, it’s a wonder the children have any teeth.
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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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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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I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
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Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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I’ve always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.
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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.
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We’re in a world now where it’s not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.
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All forms of commerce are adversarial.
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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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We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.
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I don’t want to set the world up for surprises.
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You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.
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I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
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People have paid for content. They always have.
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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.
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The only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.
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I never thought I was a very good manager.
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I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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