Steve Case Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“You shouldn't focus on why you can't do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.”
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“I was a better builder than a manager. I'd rather focus on maximizing the opportunities swinging for the fences than minimizing the risk with bunts and singles.”
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“In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.”
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“Frankly, I like new things. I feel like I made a contribution to building a more interactive world. And I'm proud of that.”
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“You can be entrepreneurial even if you don’t want to be in business. You can be a social entrepreneur focused on the not-for-profit sector. You can be an agriculture entrepreneur if you want to change how people think about farming. You can be a policy entrepreneur if you want to go into government. The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges.”
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“It's silly for me to raise expectations too much, but I think I'm right on the basic trend, which is shifting power to consumers.”
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“If you're doing something new you've got to have a vision. You've got to have a perspective. You've got to have some north star you're aiming for, and you just believe somehow you'll get there, which kind of gets to the passion point.”
-- Steve CaseSource : "Composer Jeanine Tesori on Her Artistic Process and Rewarding Female Ambition". Interview with Victoria Myers, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2015.
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“If you can build a company and make money, great. But eventually, my intention is to give all my money away. I told my kids that. [Wealth] is not particularly helpful to kids. It's almost a burden. It's better to allow them to do their own thing and have their own successes.”
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“You're not just trying to do something marginally, incrementally better. You're doing something that is a fundamental paradigm shift, that will have exponential impact. That means it's harder to do, but ultimately, if it's successful, the impact it has is far greater.”
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“There are lots of cycles to markets - boom and bust - and also in perceptions of people. The conventional wisdom of Steve Case as genius or fool was highly cyclical. The truth was always in the middle.”
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“It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team.”
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“I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world”
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“And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.”
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“If you believe that some day it's going to happen, some day it probably will happen. You just have to make sure you're there when it's happening, and ideally you're at the front of the parade, and the principle beneficiary of when it happens.”
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“I continue to have a special pride and passion for AOL, and I strongly believe that AOL - once the leading Internet company in the world - can return to its past greatness”
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“At the end of the day, the team you build is the company you build.”
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“All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.”
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“And what we did with this new company in 1985 is we did start focusing on PCs instead of video game machines, because we learned the hard lesson about bringing a product to market in a consumer world where it's very expensive to build a brand and get distribution and so forth.”
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“And so the idea was, well maybe you can take an Atari video game machine, where people plug in a game cartridge, and plug in a modem, and tie that into a telephone, and essentially turn that game in the machine into an interactive terminal.”
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“[On swinging for the fences] Ultimately, you have the potential to build a significant business with the potential to have a positive impact on millions of people's lives.”
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“For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovation. There's many good things that come out of it, but also some bad things. All you can do is try to maximize the good stuff and minimize the bad stuff.”
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“I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother.”
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“You really need to believe that you are on to something important.”
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“The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges.”
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“Disruption is about risk-taking. But then you become a Fortune 500 company, which is about risk mitigation”
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“Think about this: It was illegal for most people to connect to the internet before 1992.”
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“The pace of change and the threat of disruption creates tremendous opportunities...”
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“At AOL, we thought the killer app was people”
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“It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have”
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“Having a great idea is important. But having a great team is also important.”
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