We’re in a world now where it’s not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.
BARRY DILLERThe only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.
More Barry Diller Quotes
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You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.
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I’m never absolutely sure of anything, and I don’t want to be. You’re either right and you’ll pull through, or you’re not. We’re never going to be right about everything, and we’ve certainly been wrong.
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This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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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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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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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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The entertainment business hasn’t had a new idea in years.
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I don’t want to set the world up for surprises.
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We need an unambiguous rule – a law – that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
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Hollywood is a community that’s so inbred, it’s a wonder the children have any teeth.
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If you have too many epiphanies, you’re on some kind of drug.
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I never thought I was a very good manager.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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