Barry Diller quotes

What I've learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses. (Barry Diller)
You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.
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I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
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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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I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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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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We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.
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This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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I never thought I was a very good manager.
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Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing. (Barry Diller)
We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.
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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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No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
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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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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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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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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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People have paid for content. They always have. (Barry Diller)
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.
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I've always said that I believe deeply in creative conflict, and that means passionately arguing–whatever your thoughts are, whatever the point is. Some people love that and it helps them grow, learn, etc. Some people run for the hills. I've always said to people, "Look, it's not a room for everybody. If you like this environment, great. If you don't, please leave, because it's not good for any of us.”.
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God knows, I'm hardly a sociologist. But I hope in the future for some form of reconciliation. Because I think all men are guilty. I'm not talking about rape and pillage. I'm not talking about Harveyesque. I'm talking about all of the spectrum. From an aggressive flirt. Or even just a flirty-flirt that has one sour note in it. Or what I think every man was guilty of, some form of omission in attitude, in his views. Are we really going to have only capital punishment? Because right now, that's what we have. You get accused, you're obliterated. Charlie Rose ceases to exist.
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