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What I’ve learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.

Barry Diller

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

Products Succeed Way
I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
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Firsts Publishing Transition
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
Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
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Dumb Feet Progression
Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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Creative Different Internet
I never thought I was a very good manager.
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Good Man Manager
The entertainment business hasn’t had a new idea in years.
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Entertainment Ideas Years
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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Buttons Ideas Miracle
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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Believe Internet Promise
What I’ve learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.
BARRY DILLER

Focus Purpose Years
Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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Artist Ticketmaster Tickets
I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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Conduct Service Smallness
All forms of commerce are adversarial.
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Adversarial Commerce Form
I don’t want to set the world up for surprises.
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Surprise Want World
People have paid for content. They always have.
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Always Content Paid People
We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.
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Able Vision Want

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