Steve Case Quotes

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.
Steve Case

Great, Passion, Person

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.
Steve Case

Strength, Different, Team

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.
Steve Case

Good, True, Bad

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

Work, Good, Pretty

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.
Steve Case

Leadership, Great, Past

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.
Steve Case

Game, Idea, Turn

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.
Steve Case

Game, Hard, Learned

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

Technology, Live, Building

But the idea that some day people would want to be able to interact and get stock quotes and talk with other people or all these different things, I just believed that was going to happen.
Steve Case

Happen, Different, Talk

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.
Steve Case

Left, Behind, Five

From a relatively early age I got interested in business.
Steve Case

Age, Business, Interested

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.
Steve Case

Past, Passion, Special

I do think actually in this case the government does get credit for funding some of the basic research.
Steve Case

Government, Research, Actually

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.
Steve Case

Education, Important, Liberal

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

School, Focus, Trying

I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother.
Steve Case

Away, Brother, Older

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.
Steve Case

Next, Took, Million

I think the support of the other team at AOL and everybody's really shared passion and belief about this and - saying that some day everybody was going to be on line.
Steve Case

Saying, Passion, Team

I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Steve Case

Born, Hawaii, Raised

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.
Steve Case

Passion, Vision, Point

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.
Steve Case

Word, Playing, Games

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.
Steve Case

Father, Grow, Interested

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

Teacher, Mom, Father

Nobody should have to be a systems integrator to make a convergence network work in their home.
Steve Case

Work, Home, Nobody

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.
Steve Case

School, Different, Same

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: August 21, 1958

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