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At the end of the day, the team you build is the company you build.

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Steve Case
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 21
Businessperson
Chief Executive Officer
Entrepreneur
Honolulu
Hawaii
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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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[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 idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges.
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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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All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.
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One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them.
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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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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 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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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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In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.
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I'm probably never going to be satisfied with anything we do. I think there's always the possibility of doing better. And I'd say we're doing better than we were a year ago, in terms of delivery and quality of service, but nowhere near what we should be doing .
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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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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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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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Think about this: It was illegal for most people to connect to the internet before 1992.
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