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The only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.

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.
BARRY DILLER

Rooms Running World
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
I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
BARRY DILLER

Conduct Service Smallness
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
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’re in a world now where it’s not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.
BARRY DILLER

Enough Smart World
Hollywood is a community that’s so inbred, it’s a wonder the children have any teeth.
BARRY DILLER

Children Community Hollywood
This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
BARRY DILLER

Pain Reality World
No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
BARRY DILLER

Economic Issues Models Solve
If you have too many epiphanies, you’re on some kind of drug.
BARRY DILLER

Drug Epiphany Kind
I’ve always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.
BARRY DILLER

Great Opportunity Said Somebody
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
I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
BARRY DILLER

Firsts Publishing Transition
Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
BARRY DILLER

Dumb Feet Progression
Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
BARRY DILLER

Artist Ticketmaster Tickets
All forms of commerce are adversarial.
BARRY DILLER

Adversarial Commerce Form

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