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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

Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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Artist Ticketmaster Tickets
I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
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Believe Law Natural
The only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.
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Products Succeed Way
Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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Creative Different Internet
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
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
All forms of commerce are adversarial.
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Adversarial Commerce Form
The entertainment business hasn’t had a new idea in years.
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Entertainment Ideas Years
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
Hollywood is a community that’s so inbred, it’s a wonder the children have any teeth.
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Children Community Hollywood
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
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
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.
BARRY DILLER

Buttons Ideas Miracle
I never thought I was a very good manager.
BARRY DILLER

Good Man Manager

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