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I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

Barry Diller

I’ve always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.
BARRY DILLER

Great Opportunity Said Somebody
We’re in a world now where it’s not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.
BARRY DILLER

Enough Smart World
All forms of commerce are adversarial.
BARRY DILLER

Adversarial Commerce Form
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
Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
BARRY DILLER

Dumb Feet Progression
We need an unambiguous rule – a law – that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
BARRY DILLER

Law Needs Steps
Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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Creative Different Internet
Hollywood is a community that’s so inbred, it’s a wonder the children have any teeth.
BARRY DILLER

Children Community Hollywood
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
I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
BARRY DILLER

Conduct Service Smallness
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
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.
BARRY DILLER

Buttons Ideas Miracle
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.
BARRY DILLER

Night Obvious People Screw Two
The only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.
BARRY DILLER

Products Succeed Way
What I’ve learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.
BARRY DILLER

Focus Purpose Years

I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

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