If you think your initial market might be too big, it almost certainly is.

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.

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

The whole purpose of the winepress is to preserve the grapes. Accept Pressing moments. What you accomplish in a moment of pressure will be used forever.

Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.

As far as mental development is concerned, we should never be complacent. We can develop our minds infinitely - there is no limitation.

Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Religion does not belong to God; it belongs to the human reaction against mortality!

She smacked him so hard his momma felt it.

I don't think immigration is what's happening in our country. I think an invasion is what is happening, particularly southern border.

It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in the morning and feel bored.

Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.