You Really Need To Believe That You

I Do Think That A General Liberal Arts Education Is Very Important, Particularly In An Uncertain Changing World

If You're Doing Something New You've Got To Have A Vision. You've Got To Have A Perspective. You've Got To Have Some North Star You're Aiming For, And You Just Believe Somehow You'll Get There, Which Kind Of Gets To The Passion Point.

So My Degree Was In Political Science, Which I Think Was - The Closest I Could Come To Marketing Is Politics.

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.

The Real Magic In National Geographic Isn't How Much Money They Have Left At The End Of The Year. It's The Fact That Through Their Overall Focus They Are Reaching Hundreds Of Millions Of People And Educating People About The World. It Just Happens To Be Done In A Business-oriented Kind Of Way That Is More Sustainable.