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The only way to continue to have a robust economy is to out-innovate other nations.

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Steve Case
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 21
Businessperson
Chief Executive Officer
Entrepreneur
Honolulu
Hawaii
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Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.
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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 was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii
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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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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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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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In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.
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It's not about how to get started it's about how to get noticed.
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It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team.
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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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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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I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world
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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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You really need to believe that you are on to something important.
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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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So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.
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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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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 the end of the day, the team you build is the company you build.
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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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