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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

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.
BARRY DILLER

Opinion People World
You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.
BARRY DILLER

Advertising Trying Want
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
This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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Pain Reality World
People have paid for content. They always have.
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Always Content Paid People
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
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.
BARRY DILLER

Night Obvious People Screw Two
Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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Artist Ticketmaster Tickets
The entertainment business hasn’t had a new idea in years.
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Entertainment Ideas Years
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
I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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Conduct Service Smallness
I don’t want to set the world up for surprises.
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Surprise Want World
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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Ability Air Signals
I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
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Believe Law Natural
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.
BARRY DILLER

Rooms Running World
What I’ve learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.
BARRY DILLER

Focus Purpose Years

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