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

Barry Diller

All forms of commerce are adversarial.
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Adversarial Commerce Form
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
We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.
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Able Vision Want
The only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.
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Products Succeed Way
I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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Conduct Service Smallness
I never thought I was a very good manager.
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Good Man Manager
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
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
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
People have paid for content. They always have.
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Always Content Paid People
The entertainment business hasn’t had a new idea in years.
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Entertainment Ideas Years
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
No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
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Economic Issues Models Solve
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

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