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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 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 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
You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.
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Advertising Trying Want
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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Ability Air Signals
We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.
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Able Vision Want
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
All forms of commerce are adversarial.
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Adversarial Commerce Form
This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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Pain Reality World
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
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
If you have too many epiphanies, you’re on some kind of drug.
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Drug Epiphany Kind
People have paid for content. They always have.
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Always Content Paid People
The entertainment business hasn’t had a new idea in years.
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Entertainment Ideas Years
Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
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Dumb Feet Progression
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

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