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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.

Steve Case

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Steve Case
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 21
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Honolulu
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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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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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You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.
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It's not about how to get started it's about how to get noticed.
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There are no road signs to help navigate. And, in fact, no one has yet determined which side of the road we're supposed to be on.
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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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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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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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In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.
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Think about this: It was illegal for most people to connect to the internet before 1992.
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You shouldn't focus on why you can't do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.
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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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