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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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Steve Case
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 21
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Honolulu
Hawaii
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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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In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.
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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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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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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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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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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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I think it took us nine years to get one million subscribers to AOL, and then in the next nine years we went from one million to 35 million.
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For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovation. There's many good things that come out of it, but also some bad things. All you can do is try to maximize the good stuff and minimize the bad stuff.
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Steve Jobs always believed that you didn't want to do focus groups or research and ask people what they wanted. You wanted to create products that they didn't know they wanted yet and they would fall in love with. And I think that was part of the magic of his design philosophy.
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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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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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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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Frankly, I like new things. I feel like I made a contribution to building a more interactive world. And I'm proud of that.
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