Steve Case Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Ideas, World, Entrepreneurial

  "The Giving Pledge: A new club for billionaires". "The Giving Pledge" with Charlie Rose, www.cbsnews.com. November 17, 2013.

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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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  School, College, Thinking

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• I like ... what I characterize as more built-to-last ideas rather than built-to-flip ideas.

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  Ideas, Lasts, Flip

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• I think what people love about the Steve Jobs story is not just the track record at Apple, but that comeback story, that he was thrown out of Apple, came back and built the company even greater. And that perseverance is so important in terms of entrepreneurship. And nobody is a better role model for that, for all entrepreneurs all over the world than Steve Jobs.

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  Perseverance, Jobs, Thinking

  "What Does Future Hold for Tech World, Apple Without Jobs?". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2011.

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• Steve Jobs always believed that you didn't want to do focus groups or research and ask people what they wanted. You wanted to create products that they didn't know they wanted yet and they would fall in love with. And I think that was part of the magic of his design philosophy.

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  Falling In Love, Jobs, Philosophy

  "What Does Future Hold for Tech World, Apple Without Jobs?". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2011.

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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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  World, Proud, Building

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• So we believed that strategic alliances and partnerships were critical, and we did that for five years.

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  Years, Alliances, Partnership

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• When I was trying to popularize the concept of the Internet - ten or 15 years ago - I came up with this concept of "the 5 Cs." Services needed to have content, context, community, commerce, and connectivity. After that, when I was trying to think of what the key management principles were to build into the culture, I started talking about the Ps. The P's were things like passion, perseverance, perspective and people. I think the people aspect is really the most important one.

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  Perseverance, Business, Passion

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

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  Way, Economy, Robust

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• I was a better builder than a manager. I'd rather focus on maximizing the opportunities swinging for the fences than minimizing the risk with bunts and singles.

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  Opportunity, Swinging For The Fences, Focus

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• We need that same mentality in philanthropy, trying things, taking risks, recognizing the first try, maybe the second try, maybe the third try won't work. But if you stay at it and you're learning, you're talking to others, and you're learning together, eventually you'll break through and see the kind of impact you were hoping for.

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  Impact, Talking, Break Through

  "The Giving Pledge: A new club for billionaires". "The Giving Pledge" with Charlie Rose, www.cbsnews.com. November 17, 2013.

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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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  Silly, Thinking, Expectations

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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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  Risk, Fortune, Disruption

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• I think the more you have a generalist perspective, I think sometimes the more you can kind of see through the forest and the trees. And when it gets a little bit cloudy, you know, have some sense of, "Well, maybe this might happen or maybe that might happen." So I really am a big believer in liberal arts education. I think it's better - particularly in these kind of uncertain times - to know a little bit about a lot of things as opposed to being expert in one thing.

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  Education, Art, Thinking

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• The Internet will make every enterprise a publisher.

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  Internet, Enterprise, Publishers

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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.

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  Thinking, Glowing, World

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• I do think that people have an obligation to give back but that doesn't necessarily mean that you give back just the traditional way. Maybe there's new ways to give back and make a contribution. I'm looking forward to some mix of philanthropy - maybe through a somewhat different prism - as well as helping entrepreneurs build some significant new businesses.

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  Mean, Thinking, People

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• In less than a year Revolution has gone from being a concept to a reality, with three rapidly growing sector companies, overseeing a dozen acquired firms that collectively employ more than 2,500 people. But we're just scratching the surface in terms of the potential to build Revolution into a new kind of company that gives consumers more choice, control and convenience in the important aspects of their lives.

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  Reality, Years, People

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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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  Life Changing, Impact, Swinging For The Fences

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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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  Innovation, Trying, Stuff

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• The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate

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  Real, Ideas, Car

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• My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor

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  Mom, Teacher, Father

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• We lose money on signing up the customers where there's some marketing costs associated with giving them a free month. It doesn't much matter whether you make a little bit or lose a little bit.. as you well know, because you lose a ton on every copy of The Washington Post (newspaper).

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  Money, Giving, Marketing

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• Think about this: It was illegal for most people to connect to the internet before 1992.

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  Thinking, People, Internet

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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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  Games, Video, Machines

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