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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

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
We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.
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Able Vision Want
Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
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Dumb Feet Progression
What I’ve learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.
BARRY DILLER

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 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
Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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Creative Different Internet
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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Anything Right Sure Want
The only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.
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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
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
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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Ability Air Signals
No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
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Economic Issues Models Solve
If you have too many epiphanies, you’re on some kind of drug.
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Drug Epiphany Kind
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
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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Opinion People World

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