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No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.

Barry Diller

The entertainment business hasn’t had a new idea in years.
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Entertainment Ideas Years
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
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
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
I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.
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Believe Internet Promise
I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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Conduct Service Smallness
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
This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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Pain Reality World
You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.
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Advertising Trying Want
I’ve always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.
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Great Opportunity Said Somebody
No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
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Economic Issues Models Solve
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
I don’t want to set the world up for surprises.
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Surprise Want World
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
The only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.
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Products Succeed Way
I never thought I was a very good manager.
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Good Man Manager
I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
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Believe Law Natural
Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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Creative Different Internet
We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.
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Able Vision Want
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
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
People have paid for content. They always have.
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Always Content Paid People
Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.
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Being Done Done Twenties
All forms of commerce are adversarial.
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Adversarial Commerce Form
Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
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Dumb Feet Progression
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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Ability Air Signals
If you have too many epiphanies, you’re on some kind of drug.
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Drug Epiphany Kind

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