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.

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.

You really need to believe that you are on to something important.

If you don't have both of them working together in a complementary, cohesive way, you're not going to be successful.

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

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.

At the end of the day, the team you build is the company you build.