Jeff Jarvis Quotes

We the people have more power than we know, and we must learn to use it judiciously.

~ Jeff Jarvis

The only sane response to change is to find the opportunity in it.

~ Jeff Jarvis

You hand over control, you start winning.

~ Jeff Jarvis

Make it so obvious even a computer couldn't be confused.

~ Jeff Jarvis

Managing relationships (with start ups) is more like teaching.

~ Jeff Jarvis

There is an inverse relationship between control and trust. Trust is more of a two-way exchange than most people, especially those in power, realize. Leaders in government, news media, universities, and corporations think they can own trust, when, of course, trust is given to them. Trust is earned with difficulty and lost with ease. When those institutions treat constituents like masses of fools, children, miscreants,or prisoners, when they simply don't listen,it's unlikely they will engender warm feelings of mutual respect. Trust is an act of opening up. It's a mutual relationship of transparency and sharing. The more ways you find to reveal yourself and listen to others, the more you will build trust, which is your brand.

~ Jeff Jarvis

The web of trust is built at eye level, peer to peer.

~ Jeff Jarvis

Perhaps we need to separate youth from education. Education lasts forever. Youth is the time for exploration, maturation, socialization.

~ Jeff Jarvis

In the real world, the tests are all open book.

~ Jeff Jarvis

We no longer need companies, institutions, or government to organize us. We now have the tools to organize ourselves. We can find each other and coalesce around political causes or bad companies or talent or business or ideas.

~ Jeff Jarvis

This practically unlimited supply of advertisers in a fluid marketplace appears to be a new economic model that may insulate Google from some of the dynamics of an economy built on mass and scarcity. Google has its own economy.

~ Jeff Jarvis

Where some see a new world disorder, others see the opportunity to bring organization.

~ Jeff Jarvis

Owning pipelines, people, products, or even intellectual property is no longer the key to success. Openness is.

~ Jeff Jarvis

The cost of independence has dropped.

~ Jeff Jarvis