Steve Case (Stephen McConnell Case) Quotes
The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges.
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I've always enjoyed poor health.
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As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.
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I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
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We must defend what we have achieved so far.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
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No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.
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There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
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I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
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Well, my first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.
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I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.
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America needs to rethink how we distribute our foreign aid around the world.
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As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
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I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.
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There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
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I read a very romantic book when I was young, when I was in college: Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet.' And I've always felt that if you are in any kind of an artistic, creative endeavor, and you feel there's something else you can do for a living and be happy, I think you should do something else.
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To me, emails are a little bit frustrating. I think that the telephone is much preferred because you get the sound of the voice and the interest and everything else you can't see in an email.
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I'm a very mellow person. There are things about me that are intense, obviously.
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I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.
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Some of the most vocal critics of the way things are being done are people who have done nothing themselves, and whose only contributions to society are their complaints and moral exhibitionism.
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I have great respect for the Taiwanese. They have done an extraordinary job. But it was not a sustainable position to say that the legitimate government of China resides in Taiwan, which at that time didn't have much contact with the mainland.
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At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.
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The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges.
