I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.

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.

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.

Monopoly is the condition of every successful business.

I had one of those headaches. It kept pounding and got into that crazy realm where the guillotine seems like a good idea.

Positive thinking and negative thinking cannot operate at the same level in your mind, one needs to be the master and the one you feed it more will rule over the other.

In quarreling the truth is always lost.

For me, hearing my voice is sometimes a little nauseating, especially at Christmas.

I definitely have a rock star lifestyle.

....it is better to succeed with success than failure.

Like a satellite in orbit, Apple is perpetually falling. It just happens to miss Earth every time.

Team members have to be focused on the collective good of the team. Too often, they focus their attention on their department, their budget, their career aspirations, their egos.

Liberals attempt through judicial activism what they cannot win at the ballot box.

I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time.