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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
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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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I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii
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At AOL, we thought the killer app was people
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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 that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate
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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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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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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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If you really got the right people, and you've got them working together as a team, whether it's in business, whether it's in science, whether it's in politics, you can make a big difference.
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If you don't have both of them working together in a complementary, cohesive way, you're not going to be successful.
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Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.
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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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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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The attackers are the people with bold, innovative ideas who are trying to disrupt the status quo and usher in a better way. The defenders are the incumbents who try to defend what they have. We need to bring an attacker mindset to whatever we choose to do.
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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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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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The pace of change and the threat of disruption creates tremendous opportunities.
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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'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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One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them.
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