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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

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
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
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
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
Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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Artist Ticketmaster Tickets
Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
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Dumb Feet Progression
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
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
People have paid for content. They always have.
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Always Content Paid People
I don’t want to set the world up for surprises.
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Surprise Want World
All forms of commerce are adversarial.
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Adversarial Commerce Form
The only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.
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Products Succeed Way
We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.
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Able Vision Want
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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Rooms Running World
I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
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Believe Law Natural

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