List of Steve Case Quotes

There Are Lots Of Cycles To Markets - Boom And Bust - And Also In Perceptions Of People. The Conventional Wisdom Of Steve Case As Genius Or Fool Was Highly Cyclical. The Truth Was Always In The Middle.

Think About This: It Was Illegal For Most People To Connect To The Internet Before 1992.

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.

At Aol, We Thought The Killer App Was People

It's Actually A Relatively Small Number Of People That Really Are Those Risk Takers, And A Relatively Small Number Of People That End Up Really Having An Impact On The World, And It Doesn't Take A Lot Of People. We Said, 'well, Rather Than Just Sit By And Wait, Or Fold Our Tent And Go Do Something Else, Let's Keep At It. Maybe We Can Be The Ones Who Can Figure This Out,' And Eventually We Were.

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.

I'm Probably Never Going To Be Satisfied With Anything We Do. I Think There's Always The Possibility Of Doing Better. And I'd Say We're Doing Better Than We Were A Year Ago, In Terms Of Delivery And Quality Of Service, But Nowhere Near What We Should Be Doing .

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.

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.

I'm Not Sure I Knew What An Entrepreneur Was When I Was Ten, But I Knew That Starting Little Businesses And Trying To Sell Greeting Cards Or Newspapers Door-to-door Or Just Vending Machine Kind Of Thing Is.. There's Just Something Very Intriguing To Me About That.

If You Don't Have Both Of Them Working Together In A Complementary, Cohesive Way, You're Not Going To Be Successful.

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.