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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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Steve Case
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 21
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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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It's not about how to get started it's about how to get noticed.
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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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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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The pace of change and the threat of disruption creates tremendous opportunities.
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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 the end of the day, the team you build is the company you build.
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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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Think about this: It was illegal for most people to connect to the internet before 1992.
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The only way to continue to have a robust economy is to out-innovate other nations.
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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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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'm probably never going to be satisfied with anything we do. I think there's always the possibility of doing better. And I'd say we're doing better than we were a year ago, in terms of delivery and quality of service, but nowhere near what we should be doing .
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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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So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.
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