Michael Moritz Quotes

#1. If we were to inspect ourselves or members of our family and our friends, we would see that we don't really have to go all the way overseas to be mystified - we can be mystified right at home.

P. J. O'Rourke

#2. Israel is the second Silicon Valley, and it is therefore the only other place we have chosen to expand our activities.

Michael Moritz

#3. I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. You know, if Nicole Kidman was a rock star, she'd be alot more professional than me, I'm sorry.

Courtney Love

#5. History shows that there is no more potent engine for reform than the passion of voters who feel betrayed by the politicians they hoped would do the right thing.

Michael Moritz

#6. My undergraduate degree was in history, and I wish I had been smart enough to really excel at maths, physics, chemistry or biology because ... the voyagers and adventurers and real contributors - that's where they come from.

Michael Moritz

#7. I think overall it is better for businesses to stay private because you have more latitude, more freedom.

Michael Moritz

#8. Customers always want something new

Steve Jobs

#9. There can be no more beautiful spot to die in, no spot more worthy of total despair, than one's own novel.

Franz Kafka

#10. All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausible, and I wouldn't pretend for a moment that I hadn't made lots of mistakes and there are companies, perhaps, that we had been investors in.

Michael Moritz

#11. Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.

Aristotle.

#12. I think the notion of retirement is just a dreadful, dreadful idea and I hope I never have to do that.

Michael Moritz

#13. There's nothing more invigorating than being deeply involved with a small company and a young team of founders out to do something incredibly special.

Michael Moritz

#14. My wife calls me the Imelda Marcos of books. As soon as a book enters our home it is guaranteed a permanent place in our lives. Because I have never been able to part with even one, they have gradually accumulated like sediment.

Michael Moritz

#15. I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

#16. When we came out from the Elysee palace, there was a gigantic limousine waiting for us and four police on motorcycles. It is probably one of the few times I have experienced my fame. I thought it was so fantastic that I laughed to the point of shouting.

Ingmar Bergman

#17. It's obviously unfair to paint with a broad brush here, but the germ of an idea for a breakthrough in technology doesn't come out of a business school curriculum. It comes out of a laboratory or a math lecture or a physics tutorial.

Michael Moritz

#18. One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible.

Charles M. Blow

#19. Something could be exchanged, we thought, some deal made, some tradeoff, we still had our bodies.

Margaret Atwood

#20. He had moved from thought to words, and now from words to actions.

George Orwell