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Jan Koum Quotes

I grew up in a country where I remember my parents not being able to have a conversation on the phone. The walls had ears, and you couldn't speak freely.

Jan Koum

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: February 24, 1976

Topics

Walls Parents Speak Remember You Up

I'm big into fishing, but I've never been much of a hunter. I never was really raised around it a whole lot, so I never got a chance to do it a whole lot.

Joe Nichols

Fishing Chance Never Hunter Big Got

I don't want the sort of funeral that everybody else has, but there is one hymn, a good Protestant hymn, and it is sung at all Protestant funerals, and I think I should have it sung at mine. It is called 'The Day Thou Gave Us Lord is Ended'.

Jennifer Johnston

Good Day Think Want Lord Funeral

I haven't got the yacht any more. The cost of running it was crazy. But it was so much fun while I had it. I don't regret it.

Jenson Button

Fun Crazy Regret More Cost Yacht

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.

John Henry Newman

Selfish Reward Will Virtue Never

Lots of people aren't comfortable with silences. They feel they've got to fill the dead air.

Robin Gibb

People Feel Comfortable Dead Air

Family is whatever you say it is.

Rumaan Alam

Family You Say Whatever

Personally, I feel that a company which looks at problems of other companies and learns from their mistakes is a successful one.

Dilip Shanghvi

Mistakes Problems Feel Looks Company

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

Denis Diderot

Great Soul Great Things Elevate Only

Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted.

Debra Messing

Life Mother World My Life Single

It wasn't a good idea to work on 'Naked' in the first months of a marriage. I was living apart from my wife in a flat overflowing with books I was reading for the part.

David Thewlis

Work Good Marriage Wife Reading

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

Arthur Ashe

Life History Equality Learn You Out

More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me.

Ashley Judd

People Me You Find More Side