Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
BARRY DILLERThe 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.
More Barry Diller Quotes
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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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I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
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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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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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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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Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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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 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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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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The entertainment business hasn’t had a new idea in years.
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I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
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I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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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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