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

Barry Diller

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
No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
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Economic Issues Models Solve
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
What I’ve learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.
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Focus Purpose Years
All forms of commerce are adversarial.
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Adversarial Commerce Form
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
Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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Artist Ticketmaster Tickets
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
I don’t want to set the world up for surprises.
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Surprise Want World
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
People have paid for content. They always have.
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Always Content Paid People
I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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Conduct Service Smallness
The only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.
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Products Succeed Way
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
We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.
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Able Vision 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

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

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