If you take one typewriter and build 100, you’ve made horizontal progress. If you have a typewriter and build a word processor, you have made vertical progress.

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.

He cries. 'Please! I don't want to die.'I lean over. My hair smothers him.'Then you should never have been born, ' I say.

Earth can live longer then the humanity or the humanity can live longer than the earth! Both are possible!

In poor Rosamond’s mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.

Writing is this act of faith - a bit like driving in the fog: you can hardly see just in front of you. But you trust God's leading you and you just write into the space you can see ahead of you.

Cancer is the ultimate nemesis that hangs in the balance for one in three women and one in two men in their lifetime.

Love as a verb. Love as a commitment.

There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail

In the twentieth century the number of people killed by their own governments under authoritarian regimes is four times the number killed in all this century's wars combined.

If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive.

It's beyond imagination until you actually get up and see it and experience it and feel it.