Business Quote by Barry Diller

“What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.”

Barry Diller

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

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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…

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

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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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I've always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.

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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…

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