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" What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention. "
Barry Diller
Own
Support
Me
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" I am a contrarian. "
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" I'm just saying if you want to reach large audiences, then rely on professionals, meaning people who are in the industry and are trained for it, rather than just idiot savants. "
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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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" I never thought I was a very good manager. "
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" If we're going to talk about our businesses, we're going to have to talk about them within the constraints of the disclosure rules, without giving guidance, because we're not going to give guidance, because we don't believe that it is a sensible game to play. "
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" I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness. "
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" The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right. "
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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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" There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown. "
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" What's happened to broadcasting is that broadcasting really used to be... it used to have a very clear public service quotient. And it's more or less now. And it's been lost. "
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Now
Lost
" The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years. "
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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'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me. "
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Twitter
Daily
" We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop. "
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Step
Law
Need
" 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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Nobody
Chance
" We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it. "
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Sell
You
Want
" Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period. "
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Now
Television
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" If you're going to run a public company, be absolutely certain of what the parameters are, what the clarity is, that you can explain it to yourselves and explain it externally. "
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Company
You
Run
" Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes steadily shrink. "
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Sometimes
Over
Proud
" People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad. "
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About
Emotional
" Companies like GE and Procter & Gamble have been in business for a long time. Over decades or a century you're bound to figure out a management structure that works. "
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Time
Long
You
" 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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You
Internet
Opinion
" I don't have answers for anybody else. What I know is that internal complexity makes for superficiality. There's never essentially a pure story unless there's a pure product line that has its own shining clarity. "
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Story
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" This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful. "
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World
Because
Painful