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Steve Case
Co-Founder, America Online
We had just lived through -- earlier, in the 1980s -- the costs and the tragedy really of kind of going out on your own, but the Apple alliance blowing up kind of forced us, and that's actually when we renamed that service. Instead of AppleLink we called it America Online. We said, "We have to create our own name. We have to create our own brand. Even though it's hard, even though it's expensive, even though it's risky, we've got to figure out a way to be successful on our own two feet. We can no longer just piggy back on other people's efforts." So, again that was a crisis. Everybody, myself included, was very nervous about walking away from the strategy of private label partnerships that was working and setting out on our own and taking more risks, but we felt like we had to do it, and it turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to us. Because then it really propelled us, because we had the flexibility to do exactly what we wanted without getting permission, and we were able to really drive AOL into a position of great prominence.
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Dale Chihuly
Master Glass Artist
Dale Chihuly: I've been lucky to have very few doubts. There were many times in my career when I could've pulled back. I always put all of my resources into my career, and I was never afraid of going into debt for that. I somehow felt that I could always get out of debt. I used to borrow a lot of money -- I mean a lot of money for me at the time -- from the bank to do something about my work, but I always paid it back, so the bank would always loan me more money. When I could afford to quit teaching, I did immediately. Not that I didn't like to teach, but I taught long enough, and then I could concentrate more on my work. When I could buy a bigger building, a bigger studio, I would do that. Always, of course, I never the bank always owned everything. Still does. So I was never afraid, very few doubts about That's not meaning to say that I don't think about the fact that things could go wrong financially, but if they do, they do. But I don't dwell on that.
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Johnnetta Cole
Past President of Spelman College
Professionally, of course, I've had disappointments. And I would say that the most painful for me was recently when, coming out of my work with President Clinton on the Transition Team, I served as the Cluster Coordinator for Education, and for Labor, and for the Arts. I was literally attacked. Attacked in the media, called names that I knew didn't belong to me. Accused of things that I knew that I had not done. It's a very painful experience to be attacked. It's not pleasant to look at a newspaper and to see people saying untruths. But it's in moments like that that I think one really comes to grips with the absolute core of who you are as a person. And it's also in moments like that, that you really discover the extraordinary power of friendships, of collegial relationships.
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Johnnetta Cole
Past President of Spelman College
The charges that were leveled against me, I found it important to say very little. The folk who spoke were amazingly effective in saying how they perceive me. The Atlanta Jewish community, responding to some unbelievable charge that I was practicing anti-Semitism. The Atlanta business community, responding to a charge that I was a communist. And so, others spoke up. And I think the lesson to be learned there is that when we are connected to folk who are being charged unfairly, it is our responsibility to speak up.
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