Luck is like an atheistic word for God.

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.

Greatness comes from the inside and once you believe you have it, it's yours to share with the world.

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

Ah if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches!

I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.

I hope to go into a poem sober and come out a little drunk. And if I do then that's a real poem.

The Israeli mentality was totally different to mine. They just didn't understand people like me. They couldn't understand why I had been in a ghetto. We were totally different.

There's nothing more dangerous than than someone trying to act for the greater good.

There are no endings.

who is invisible enough to see you

Limitation makes the creative mind inventive.