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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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Steve Case
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 21
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Chief Executive Officer
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Honolulu
Hawaii
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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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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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In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.
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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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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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The only way to continue to have a robust economy is to out-innovate other nations.
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I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii
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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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So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.
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