Forget startup companies. The next frontier is startup countries.

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.

If women are so smart, how come hardly any philosophers have been, and now are, female?

No form of revenge could have made me hate you any less. If I had cut the two of you to shreds with a knife, I think I would have hated the little pieces of you just the same.

Man has a primary property right to his person and his labor.

Every individual has the potentiality to become enlightened in the course of this life or later existences

In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.

Once the mind is met with understanding, it can always find its way home.

There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture . . .

You don't have to have perfect wisdom to get very rich - just a bit better than average over a long period of time.

Men have reacted very negatively to the power that is inherent in women.