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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

I don’t want to set the world up for surprises.
BARRY DILLER

Surprise Want 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
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
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 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
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
You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.
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Advertising Trying Want
We’re in a world now where it’s not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.
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Enough Smart World
Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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Creative Different Internet
I never thought I was a very good manager.
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Good Man Manager
I’ve always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.
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Great Opportunity Said Somebody
Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
BARRY DILLER

Artist Ticketmaster Tickets
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
Hollywood is a community that’s so inbred, it’s a wonder the children have any teeth.
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Children Community Hollywood
No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
BARRY DILLER

Economic Issues Models Solve
Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
BARRY DILLER

Dumb Feet Progression

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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