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In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.

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Steve Case
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 21
Businessperson
Chief Executive Officer
Entrepreneur
Honolulu
Hawaii
Stephen McConnell Steve Case
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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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Nowadays people seem to switch schools, either because they have to, and certain schools only serve certain grades, or because they move to a different place or have some particular interest, but I was in the same school for 13 years
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At AOL, we thought the killer app was people
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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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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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I enjoyed high school and college, and I think I learned a lot, but that was not really my focus. My focus was on trying to figure out what businesses to start
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We lose money on signing up the customers where there's some marketing costs associated with giving them a free month. It doesn't much matter whether you make a little bit or lose a little bit.. as you well know, because you lose a ton on every copy of The Washington Post (newspaper).
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I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii
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The pace of change and the threat of disruption creates tremendous opportunities.
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At the end of the day, the team you build is the company you build.
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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 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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Disruption is about risk-taking. But then you become a Fortune 500 company, which is about risk mitigation
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In the entrepreneurial world, when you launch a company, you have a particular idea, a particular product, a particular service, almost always you pivot, you shift. The market reacts to your initial idea. You make some adjustments. It's only after making a few adjustments that you see the success.
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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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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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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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You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.
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I think it took us nine years to get one million subscribers to AOL, and then in the next nine years we went from one million to 35 million.
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