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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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Steve Case
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 21
Businessperson
Chief Executive Officer
Entrepreneur
Honolulu
Hawaii
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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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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 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 do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world
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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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In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.
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