Steve Case Quotes About Risk

Quotes about: Risk

• You can be entrepreneurial even if you don’t want to be in business. You can be a social entrepreneur focused on the not-for-profit sector. You can be an agriculture entrepreneur if you want to change how people think about farming. You can be a policy entrepreneur if you want to go into government. The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges.

  Steve Case

  Business, Thinking, Ideas

• The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges.

  Steve Case

  Thinking, Ideas, Entrepreneur

• Disruption is about risk-taking.
  But then you become a Fortune
  500 company, which is about risk
  mitigation

  Steve Case

  Risk, Fortune, Disruption

• The attackers are the people with bold, innovative ideas who are trying to disrupt the status quo and usher in a better way. The defenders are the incumbents who try to defend what they have. We need to bring an attacker mindset to whatever we choose to do.

  Steve Case

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "The next great Internet revolution is coming, AOL founder says" by Blake Snow, www.foxnews.com. May 29, 2013.

• 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.

  Steve Case

  Numbers, Impact, People

• 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.

  Steve Case

  Opportunity, Swinging For The Fences, Focus

• 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.

  Steve Case

  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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