Myron Fuller Steves, Sr., founder of the Texas-based managing general agency and wholesale insurance broker, Myron F. Steves & Co., passed away on Aug. 29, 2015, at the age of 103, but not without leaving one final message.
His advice? “Stop looking for advice. Go out and do something. And stick to it, come hell or high water.”
And stick to it, he did.
That Myron Steves was a “doer” has never been in doubt by those who knew him, loved him and conducted business with him. His life was all about risk — taking risks and helping his clients manage them.
At the age of 100, Myron Steves was still doing — swimming most mornings (a practice he started in 1958) and doing pilates twice a week, among other things.
In a conversation with Insurance Journal in 2012, he described his journey through the insurance industry and his belief that at the time he just might have been the oldest holder of the CPCU designation, which he received in 1949.
“My number at the time was 298. I don’t know how many of us are living now, but all the ones in the class of 1934 are gone now,” he said.
Steves began his insurance career in Atlanta in 1937. In 1955, with one employee and $10 in the bank, he created the family firm that today carries on his tradition of hard work, ethical practices, a zest for life and, yes, taking risks.
About Myron Steves, commenters on Insurance Journal‘s website have said previously that Steves “was an amazing man with an incredible outlook on life and our business,” and that he “brought a smile to your face whenever you talked to him. His knowledge and spunk were something to be admired. He will be truly missed.”
That he will. But as Myron Steves says in his last message to the world, he has “new business to attend to. Now, go take a risk.”
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