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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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My dream is for my flowers to act as beacons and rallying points across the planet - bringing people together on a global scale and through my art start a global conversation.
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You ask me: 'Was he a fair player?' I say: 'No, I'm sorry, for me he was not a fair player.' I just think I respect him highly as a quality player. I did not like some things he did on the football pitch and I have the right to say that. It's not because you are older, suddenly, that you are a saint.
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My idea of a good night out is staying in.
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We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence.
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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.
