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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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In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.
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I was born and raised in 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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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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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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Think about this: It was illegal for most people to connect to the internet before 1992.
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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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I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world
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