Recruiting is a core competency for any company. It should never be outsourced.

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 was rather clumsy and shy and looked as if he'd spent the last ten years of his life locked up in a library - hardly the kind of man any girl your age dreams of ...

Mankind's obsession with money and greed has them going down a one way street to their demise.

Where there is creativity there is hope and Haiti is the most hopeful place I've experienced

Having no human companion I felt a spirit of comradeship for the objects of nature around me. In my childish way I communed with these as with my own soul; they became the sharers of my confidence.

I can be normal by myself; no one notices me.

You cannot create new science unless you realise where the old science leaves off and new science begins, and science fiction forces us to confront this.

I don't want to live your dream. That's your dream. Go ahead and do it. But it's not mine.

I'm no different than any other expendable player.

For life, with all its yields of joy and woe Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love.

Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.