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All forms of commerce are adversarial.

Barry Diller

I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
BARRY DILLER

Believe Law Natural
If you have too many epiphanies, you’re on some kind of drug.
BARRY DILLER

Drug Epiphany Kind
I never thought I was a very good manager.
BARRY DILLER

Good Man Manager
I’ve always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.
BARRY DILLER

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

Surprise Want World
I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.
BARRY DILLER

Believe Internet Promise
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’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
BARRY DILLER

Conduct Service Smallness
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
We need an unambiguous rule – a law – that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
BARRY DILLER

Law Needs Steps
Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.
BARRY DILLER

Being Done Done Twenties
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.
BARRY DILLER

May Real Taken
People have paid for content. They always have.
BARRY DILLER

Always Content Paid People
Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
BARRY DILLER

Dumb Feet Progression
No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
BARRY DILLER

Economic Issues Models Solve

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