Steve Jurvetson Quotes

If you thought financial crises came and went, just count on them - another economic collapse, it's almost going to be like not news any more. But for startups this is great, because it's a perpetual driver of disruption.

Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.

I don't know if we're on the edge of the precipice, but we're in a very, very, very difficult situation.

We are at crisis point. I think anybody that sees this nation as being on stable economic or fiscal ground is fooling themselves.

What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.

The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it's going to just get more unpredictable.

If we're in a bubble, it's the weirdest bubble I've ever seen, where everybody hates everything.

People are, you know, a little - they're still uncertain, and they're uncertain both because they don't know what might come next in terms of regulations, but they're also uncertain because of changes in a global economy that we're only beginning to take hold of.

The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.

The United States is broke — fiscally, morally, intellectually — and the Fed has incited a global currency war Japan just signed up, the Brazilians and Chinese are angry, and the German-dominated euro zone is crumbling that will soon overwhelm it. When the latest bubble pops, there will be nothing to stop the collapse. If this sounds like advice to get out of the markets and hide out in cash, it is.

Economic markets are collapsing. People all over the world are suffering and people afraid. What happens when peep are afraid? They become intolerant.

We have been dealt a very weak hand by the financial market meltdown, bailouts, and recession. We can't act like it's a strong one.

Economics is not a science; it is a quasi-religion: part superstition, part mystique, part sentimentality. Bankers dream like other men, the only difference being that when their dreams turn to nightmares, we all lose sleep. There can be no trusting the muttering of any prelate when it comes to money.

Anytime there's a disruption in the supply chain, any time people cut back on spending, there will be a recession.

I don't think anybody has any idea what the economic impact of Brexit will be.

Small business owners are experiencing great uncertainty because of the possibility of tax increases, the inconsistent flow of credit, an outrageous national debt, high energy costs, and overreaching federal regulations.

When you're dealing with a bankrupt sovereign - like the U.S. government - you're dealing with a very powerful wounded bear. You have to be very careful because you can't know what the beast is going to do.

Calling bitcoin volatile - it's a non-statement. Unregulated assets with unclear regulatory landscapes are always going to be volatile. That's what unregulated assets do.

Bubbles are always new; you just can't find an old bubble.

In nine companies out of ten the factor of fluctuation has been a more dominant and important consideration in the matter of investment than has the factor of long-term growth or decline

The path we're on has taken the USA to the brink of bankruptcy.

The world of finance is a mysterious world in which, incredible as the fact may appear, evaporation precedes liquidation.

I believe the only things that really matter in investing are the bubbles and the busts

The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn.

Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or elections.