Steve Case quotes

I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's. (Steve Case)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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So we believed that strategic alliances and partnerships were critical, and we did that for five years. View quote
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And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership. View quote
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Most of the people who had PCs did not have modems and could not use those PCs as communicating devices. They really were using them for spreadsheets or word processing or storing recipes or playing games or what have you. View quote
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So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics. View quote
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And so the idea was, well maybe you can take an Atari video game machine, where people plug in a game cartridge, and plug in a modem, and tie that into a telephone, and essentially turn that game in the machine into an interactive terminal. View quote
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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. (Steve Case)
My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things. View quote
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So you have to force yourself out of a comfort zone and really try to figure out what are the key ingredients, the key skill sets, the key perspectives that are necessary, and then figure out a way to attract the very best people to fill those particular roles. View quote
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I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world. View quote
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I do think actually in this case the government does get credit for funding some of the basic research. View quote
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When I first got started in the late '70s, early '80s, and first was thinking about the interactive world, I believed so fervently that it was the next big thing, I thought it would happen quickly. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Steve Case)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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From a relatively early age I got interested in business. View quote
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One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible. View quote
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