American - Businessman | February 2, 1942 -
What I've learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.
Barry Diller
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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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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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What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
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People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.
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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'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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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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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've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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I am a contrarian.
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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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