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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

All forms of commerce are adversarial.
BARRY DILLER

Adversarial Commerce Form
What I’ve learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.
BARRY DILLER

Focus Purpose Years
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
I never thought I was a very good manager.
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Good Man Manager
No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
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Economic Issues Models Solve
Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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Creative Different Internet
I’ve always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.
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Great Opportunity Said Somebody
I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
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Believe Law Natural
People have paid for content. They always have.
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Always Content Paid People
I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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Conduct Service Smallness
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
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
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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Ability Air Signals
Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
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Dumb Feet Progression
Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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Artist Ticketmaster Tickets
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

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