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If you have too many epiphanies, you’re on some kind of drug.

Barry Diller

No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
BARRY DILLER

Economic Issues Models Solve
I don’t want to set the world up for surprises.
BARRY DILLER

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

Being Done Done Twenties
People have paid for content. They always have.
BARRY DILLER

Always Content Paid People
I never thought I was a very good manager.
BARRY DILLER

Good Man Manager
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
I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
BARRY DILLER

Firsts Publishing Transition
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.
BARRY DILLER

Rooms Running World
The only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.
BARRY DILLER

Products Succeed Way
Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
BARRY DILLER

Dumb Feet Progression
I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.
BARRY DILLER

Believe Internet Promise
I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
BARRY DILLER

Believe Law Natural
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
We’re in a world now where it’s not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.
BARRY DILLER

Enough Smart World
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.
BARRY DILLER

Opinion People World

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