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Steve Jurvetson Quotes

Flourishing is everyone's birthright. I'm trying to break this hold that being smiley and cheery has on what people think the good life is.

Steve Jurvetson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: March 1, 1967

Topics

Life Good People Think Good Life

Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a company is not allowed to provide a personal benefit to a decision maker in return for business. But hiring the sons and daughters of powerful executives and politicians is hardly just the province of banks doing business in China: it has been a time-tested practice here in the United States.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Business Decision Practice Powerful

Free enterprise capitalism has been the most powerful creative system of social cooperation and human progress ever conceived, but its perception and its role in society have been distorted.

Progress Creative Perception Society

So now what happens is the cameras follow me around and capture exactly what I've been doing since I was a boy. Only now we have a team of, you know, like 73 of us, and it's gone beyond that.

Me Team Doing You Know Capture

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

You Want Way Others Write Two

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

Robert Browning

Me Comforts Aspired

When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble.

Family Trouble Know Up Show Member

One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.

Day Fight One Day Guy Going Get

The greatest meal of my life involved a Triscuit.

Life My Life Meal Involved Greatest

Labour and land are always politically sensitive.

Jose Angel Gurria

Land Always Sensitive Labour

I don't know anyone who's ever taken a bus. It's a mysterious form of transportation.

Christopher Guest

Transportation Know Mysterious Bus

With four people you can create one very strong kind of energy, but if you can get 65 people working together, and swinging together, that's a whole other kind of energy.

Working Together Together People You

When you're a creative person, there are just times when you're not listening. You know, I could be looking right at you and thinking about something else.

Creative Listening Looking Thinking

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