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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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Steve Case
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 21
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Honolulu
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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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Think about this: It was illegal for most people to connect to the internet before 1992.
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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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Five or ten years ago, when it was clear the Internet was becoming a mainstream phenomenon, it was equally clear that a lot of people were being left out and could be left behind
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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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In the entrepreneurial world, when you launch a company, you have a particular idea, a particular product, a particular service, almost always you pivot, you shift. The market reacts to your initial idea. You make some adjustments. It's only after making a few adjustments that you see the success.
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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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I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother.
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I continue to have a special pride and passion for AOL, and I strongly believe that AOL - once the leading Internet company in the world - can return to its past greatness
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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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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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[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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Disruption is about risk-taking. But then you become a Fortune 500 company, which is about risk mitigation
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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'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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