If they don't go to law school, bright college graduates head to Wall Street precisely because they have no real plan for their careers.

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.

The art of loving is not how many you touch, it is the heart of one that shows a masterpiece of your deepest design.~Bluenscottish

I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image.

It is insanity to run from God and search for love.

Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.

I believe in angels. I believe in God.

I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement

I love London because of the history. The times I've been there have been some of the best memories in my life. Singing there, seeing great theater - and the people like a Southern accent.

I admit I'm being paid well, but it's no more than I deserve. After all, I've been screwed more times than a hooker.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

I'd rather be right than consistent.