I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
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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This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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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’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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What I’ve learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.
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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 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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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.
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No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
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I’ve always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.
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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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All forms of commerce are adversarial.
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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 never thought I was a very good manager.
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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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