All happy companies are different: each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.

Today's 'best practices' lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried.

The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.

I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.

The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present.

I do think Bitcoin is the first [encrypted money] that has the potential to do something like change the world.

Every business is successful exactly to the extent that it does something others cannot.

In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today.

Under perfect competition, in the long run no company makes an economic profit.

The most fundamental reason that even businesspeople underestimate the importance of sales is the systematic effort to hide it at every level of every field in a world secretly driven by it.

Of the six people who started PayPal, four had built bombs in high school.

Your mind can make you sick, and your mind can heal you.

As hard as my life has been I have no desire for revenge. If I wish for anything it is for all the things that have been stolen from my life to be returned to me.

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.

Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will.

War is out of date, obsolete.

The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.

I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both.

When you think about it, Alaska is also near the North Pole, so she must also be friends with Santa.

So frequently we mistakenly believe that our children need more things, when in reality their silent pleadings are simply for more of our time.