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I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's.

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Steve Case
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 21
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Honolulu
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I want to find people who have had to work hard and who have learned from their failures. Perseverance is no guarantee you’ll succeed, but without it, it’s almost guaranteed you won’t.
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I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii
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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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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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You really need to believe that you are on to something important.
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It's not about how to get started it's about how to get noticed.
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The only way to continue to have a robust economy is to out-innovate other nations.
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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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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.
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At Revolution Health Group we will put consumers back at the center of the system by giving them more choice, control and convenience.. while building the first comprehensive, consumer-driven health care company.
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One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible
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There are no road signs to help navigate. And, in fact, no one has yet determined which side of the road we're supposed to be on.
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Think about this: It was illegal for most people to connect to the internet before 1992.
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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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All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.
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