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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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Steve Case
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 21
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Chief Executive Officer
Entrepreneur
Honolulu
Hawaii
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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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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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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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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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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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In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.
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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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At the end of the day, the team you build is the company you build.
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So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.
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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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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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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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The pace of change and the threat of disruption creates tremendous opportunities.
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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 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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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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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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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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I think the support of the other team at AOL and everybody's really shared passion and belief about this and - saying that some day everybody was going to be on line.
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