Barry Diller Quotes

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• You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.

  Barry Diller

  Trying, Want, Advertising

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• We're in a world now where it's not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.

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  Smart, World, Enough

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• Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.

  Barry Diller

  Feet, Dumb, Progression

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• I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

  Barry Diller

  Smallness

  "NOW" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 25, 2003.

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

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  Way, Succeed, Products

  "Barry Diller to Time Warner: Name Your Price for AOL". Interview with Abbey Klaassen, adage.com. November 12, 2007.

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• What I've learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.

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  Years, Focus, Purpose

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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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  Want, Be You

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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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  Children, Community, Hollywood

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• We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.

  Barry Diller

  Vision, Want, Able

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Barry Diller

  Believe, Promise, Internet

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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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  Twenties, Done, Being Done

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• This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.

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  Pain, Reality, World

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• 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, Two, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.

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  Believe, Law, Natural

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• I never thought I was a very good manager.

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  Good Man, Very Good, 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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  Creative, Different, Internet

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• The idea of a company that's earning money, not losing money, that's not, let's say 'industrially endangered,' to have just cutbacks so they can earn another $12 million or $20 million or $40 million in a year where no one's counting is really a horrible act when you think about it on every level. First of all, it's certainly not necessary. It's doing it at the worst time. It's throwing people out to a larger, what is inevitably a larger unemployment heap for frankly no good reason.

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  Thinking, Ideas, Years

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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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  Law, Needs, Steps

  "Net neutrality should be law, says media tycoon" by Shane Richmond, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 15, 2011.

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• If you have too many epiphanies, you're on some kind of drug.

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  Drug, Kind, Epiphany

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• I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.

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  Transition, Firsts, Publishing

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• Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.

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  Artist, Doe, Tickets

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• The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.

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  Years, Ideas, Entertainment

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• It's not that you don't want to earn as much money as you can - it is your obligation, of course - but companies have obligations beyond that and they certainly have obligations beyond that at certain times, in the times in which they operate. And they also certainly ought to know that meeting and beating expectations is probably yesterday's game and it will be increasingly so, which would be by the way very healthy for companies. Running a company that meets and beats expectations, and that runs their company accordingly, are companies that I would question why anyone would invest in.

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  Running, Games, Yesterday

  "Diller to profitable companies: Lay off the layoffs" by Ben Klayman, blogs.reuters.com. December 4, 2008.

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• The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.

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  Air, Signals, Ability

  "Barry Diller: Aereo to Expand to Most Major U.S. Cities by 2013" by Georg Szalai, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 13, 2012.

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• I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

  Barry Diller

  World, Want, Surprise

  "Barry Diller To Time Warner: Name Your Price For AOL". Interview with Abbey Klaassen, adage.com. November 12, 2007.

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