Higher education holds itself out as a kind of universal church, outside of which there is no salvation.

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.

Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.

It costs nothing to dream and everything not to

Please understand there is no depression in this house and we are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

I believe that if you have faith in your own abilities then in the end others will have faith in them too, even if they need a little persuading.

...you can extend your life tremendously by eating the right things. By eating right you can combat almost everything: disease, fatigue, over-work.

Pastime with good company I love and shall, until I die. Grudge who list, but none deny! So God be pleased, thus live will I.

Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.

The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.

We all screw up. Everyone makes mistakes. That’s what she did. It was bad judgment, that’s all. You don’t cut off the people you love for mistakes like that.

Every man, even the most blessed, needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.